Rick Stroup News Today

The Carbon County Hall of Sports Hall of Fame committee will hold its 2024 induction dinner and program on Sunday, May 26, at the Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company hall. The ceremony will honor...

I’m sad to report that Rick Stroup, one of the founders of free-market environmentalism (along with Terry Anderson, John Baden, and a few others), has passed away.  Rick was also the coauthor (with James Gwartney) of one of the best principles of economics textbooks published in the past forty years, breaking the Samuelsonian/interventionist/socialist monopoly of that market that lasted from the late ’40s to the early ’80s.  I used their Economics: Private and Public Choice i...

My friend Tom wrote the following: “The university administrators knew that Walter Block himself would never apologize, and neither would I, the sponsor of the lecture.  So they pressured several members of the economics department who were not even at the lecture to write a letter of apology in the student newspaper, which they dutifully did.  That letter was a lie, since it was signed by “The Economics Department” despite the fact that I did not even hear of the letter as it was being...