Richard L. Stroup

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Richard Lyndell Stroup is a free-market environmentalist and emeritus professor of economics at both North Carolina State University and Montana State University. He was co-founder of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and a senior fellow.[1] He is also a research fellow at the Independent Institute,[2] adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, and a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society.[3] At Montana State University, he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics & Economics. Stroup served as director of the in the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1982 to 1984.[4][5]

He is co-author with James Gwartney and others of Economics: Public and Private Choice, an economics principles textbook now in its 17th edition. [6]Among other writing, he has contributed to Re-Thinking Green,[7] edited Cutting Green Tape[8] and is the author of Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment, which received the 2004 Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award.[9] He is a coauthor of Common Sense Economics.[10]

Stroup contributed to the development of free market environmentalism and its academic forerunner, the New Resource Economics. He started with an article jointly written with John Baden, "Externality, Property Rights, and Management of National Forests" in the October 1973 issue of the Journal of Law and Economics. The article criticized the U. S. Forest Service's management of national forests and explored the possibility of private ownership of forests (including ownership by environmental groups).

Stroup received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington, where he also received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He is married to Jane S. Shaw, former president of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (previously the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy).

Publications[]

  • Stroup, Richard L. (2008). "Free-Market Environmentalism". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.

References[]

  1. ^ "Stroup, Richard Lyndell," Who's Who in America, 46th ed., vol. 2 (Wilmette IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1990-1991), p. 3181.
  2. ^ Richard L. Stroup, Independent Institute
  3. ^ Fraser Institute: Richard L. Stroup
  4. ^ "Richard Stroup". www.perc.org. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  5. ^ "About the Authors | Common Sense Economics". Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  6. ^ James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Russell S. Sobel, David A. MacPherson (2022). Economics: Public and Private Choice. Boston, MA: Cengage. ISBN 978-0-357-13399-6.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Stroup, Richard. Re-Thinking Green. ISBN 978-0-945999-97-3.
  8. ^ Stroup, Richard. Cutting Green Tape. ISBN 978-0-7658-0618-5.
  9. ^ "Prizes and Opportunities," Atlas Economic Research Foundation, http://www.atlasusa.org/programs/fisheraward_2004.php?refer=programs (from the Wayback Time Machine).
  10. ^ "Common Sense Economics". Retrieved 2021-08-13.

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