Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of the Political Economy Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana. PERC is a nonprofit institute that applies market approaches to environmental problems. Shaw directs PERC's editorial outreach program, which prepares and distributes articles on economics for the popular and non-academic press. Before joining PERC in 1984, Shaw was an Associate Economics Editor of Business Week and, before that, was a correspondent for McGraw-Hill Publications in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Shaw received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College.