James d. Gwartney

Richard L. Stroup is Professor Emeritus of Economics at both Montana State University and
North Carolina State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Washington. From 1982
to 1984 he served as director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of the
Interior. Stroup has published and spoken on global warming, land use regulation, archaeology,
and about needed environmental policy improvements. His research helped to develop the
approach known as free market environmentalism. He is co-author of a leading economics
principles text, Economics: Private and Public Choice, now in its 16
th
edition. His book Eco-
nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment (Washington:
Cato Institute, 2
nd
edition 2016), was sponsored by the Property and Environment Research
Center, of which he is a cofounder.
Dwight R. Lee received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1972. Since
that time he has served on the faculty at the University of Colorado, Virginia Tech University,
George Mason University, and the University of Georgia where he was the Ramsey Professor

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of Economics and Private Enterprise from 1985 to 2008. He was the William J. O’Neil
Professor of Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University in Dallas from
2008 to 2014. He is currently a senior fellow at SMU and an Affiliated Faculty Fellow at the
Institute for the Study of Political Economy at Ball State University. Professor Lee’s research
has covered a variety of areas including the economics of the environment and natural
resources, the economics of political decision-making, public finance, law and economics, and
labor economics. During his career Professor Lee has published over 160 articles in academic
journals, nearly 300 articles and commentaries in magazines and newspapers, co-authored
fourteen books and been the contributing editor of five others. He has lectured at universities
and conferences throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Central America, South
America, Asia, and Africa. He was president of the Association of Private Enterprise
Education in 1994–1995 and president of the Southern Economic Association in 1997–1998.