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 in my principles classes for many years. He was a great teacher, a superb writer and researcher, an...