Andy, why did you say that the two people who wrote the research paper worked for the interest of business's? From the bottom of the piece here are their bio's.
About the Authors
Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC (the Political Economy Research Center ) in Bozeman, Montana. PERC is a nonprofit foundation that provides market solutions to environmental problems. Ms. Shaw directs PERC's Environmental Education program, which prepares curriculum materials for environmental education classes, and its editorial outreach program, which prepares and distributes economics articles for the popular and non-academic press. She also directs conferences on environmental topics for journalists and business executives. Before joining PERC in 1984, Ms. Shaw was an Associate Economics Editor of Business Week and a Washington correspondent for McGraw-Hill Publications. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Regulation, a Senior Editor of Liberty and a member of the Editorial Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London).
Richard L. Stroup is a Professor of Economics at Montana State University and a Senior Associate of PERC (the Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana. From 1982 to 1984, he was Director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Interior Department. Dr. Stroup is a widely published author on natural resources and environmental issues and has also written on tax policy and labor economics. His work has been a major force in the development of the approach to resource problems known as the New Resource Economics. He is coauthor, with James D. Gwartney, of a recent primer on economics, What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity, and of a leading economics principles textbook, Economics: Private and Public Choice, now in its seventh edition. Other books include Natural Resources: Bureaucratic Myths and Environmental Management, written with John Baden, and Bureaucracy vs. the Environment: The Environmental Cost of Bureaucratic Governance, edited with John Baden. He has also written many articles for professional journals and for popular media outlets. His recent research has focused on alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with hazardous waste, global warming and other environmental risks.
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