Stroup, Richard

RICHARD STROUP is professor of economics and interim department head at Montana State University and a senior associate of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). During the Reagan administration, Stroup served as the director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Department of Interior. He is a widely published author and speaker on economics, including natural resources and environmental issues. His books include the recent primer on economics, Eco-Nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment, and a leading economics principles textbook, co-authored with James D. Gwartney, Economics: Private and Public Choice, now in its tenth edition. (REV. 2004)