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Laura Jones is a leading contributor to the Canadian libertarian think tank The Fraser Institute. She writes on a variety of issues and is published widely in the ''Fraser Forum'', the monthly peer reviewed journal published by the Institute. Jones is Director of the Centre for Studies in Risk and Regulation at The Fraser Institute. She received her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.〔 The Official Simon Fraser University (SFU) website: http://www.vancouver.sfu.ca/〕 ==Career== Jones is Vice-President, British Columbia and Yukon of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Prior to joining CFIB she was Director of Environment and Regulatory Studies at The Fraser Institute and taught economics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She has authored or co-authored a number of public policy studies including ''Canada’s Regulatory Burden, Searching For Solutions: Experiments in Fisheries Management on Canada’s West Coast, and Environmental Indicators''. She has edited five books including ''Safe Enough? Managing Risk and Regulation''. Jones has also published articles in prominent Canadian newspapers like the ''Vancouver Sun'', the ''Ottawa Citizen'', and the ''National Post'' and testified before Parliamentary and Congressional committees on proposed legislation, and co-ordinated The Fraser Institute’s annual survey of mining companies. One prominent governmental advisory committee Jones co-chaired was the ''Paperwork Burden Reduction Initiative''which was instrumental in streamlining new technologies in the day-to-day business within Industry Canada.〔 Industry Canada. "Advisory Committee on Paperwork Burden Reduction (ACPBR)" 2007-06-06. http://www.reducingpaperburden.gc.ca/epic/site/pbri-iafp.nsf/en/h_sx00020e.html〕 She received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Jones' work is centered upon conservative principles and writes widely on the topic of Free market environmentalism. In an article titled "A Different Kind of Environmentalist", Jones outlines some of the main supporting arguments behind the free market approach to solving environmental problems. She writes,
This is a widely held view amongst more popular and world-renowned free market environmentalists like Terry L. Anderson, Donald Leal and Elizabeth Brubaker. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Jones (Fraser Institute)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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