He was co-founder of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and a senior fellow.
[7] This textbook introduced public choice economics to a broad student audience.
[11] Stroup contributed to the development of free market environmentalism and its academic forerunner, the New Resource Economics.
He started with an article jointly written with John Baden, "Externality, Property Rights, and Management of National Forests" in the October 1973 issue of the Journal of Law and Economics.
He was married to Jane Shaw Stroup (Jane S. Shaw), chairperson of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (previously the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy).