Fishing resources are classified as a “commons good,” that is they are highly non-excludable and rival. This characteristic leads to the so-called tragedy of the commons, the tendency for a good that has no price to be used until its marginal benefit falls to zero. In this paper, a win-win...

While the rate of extinction is the same for insects and other animals, insects are underrepresented in the Fish and Wildlife Service's list of threatened or endangered species. Insect conservationists have argued that the Endangered Species Act and the Fish and Wildlife Service are biased...