Category: Articles

Ten years ago Apple’s iPhone violated “network neutrality.” Today it is the consumer product of the century. RealClearMarkets

How did we get here? The answer, according to “The Political Spectrum” (Yale University Press 2017), a remarkable new book by Clemson University economist Thomas Hazlett, is that the agency began life with a political agenda, one that continues to override its technical experts. The Washington Post

C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb Interviews Thomas Hazlett, Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor and Director of IEP Here is the link to view the interviews regarding his newest book, The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, Telecommunications laws, Federal Trade Commission and his previous publication, The Fallacy of Net […]

Professor Hazlett’s book analyzes the evolution of the wireless spectrum from radio to smartphones. Hazlett details the evolution of the advances in communications and how regulations, even when they are well-intentioned, have slowed progress and have resulted in long delays before new technologies are authorized. Despite wireless technology’s all of the innovations, regulations and delays […]

Dr. Michael Scott, professor of business administration in East Central University’s Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business, was selected for the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs Region 6. The ADA News

There is a large empirical literature examining the effects of free trade agreements. However, most studies to date have focused on a common average effect across all agreements or have assumed that the effects are common across similar types of agreements. This column examines heterogeneity in the effects of free trade agreements. Along with across-agreement […]

 What better way to grasp an understanding of economic policy than to rub shoulders with those who influence it at the highest levels of government. That was the mindset of the family of the late John Harris ’74 who created an endowment that allows for Clemson University senior economics majors to visit economic policymakers in […]

Anna’s research co-authored with James Bailey, Creighton University, paper “Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility: Did the Affordable Care Act Reduce Job Lock” published in the Contemporary Economic Policy was nominated for the best article in 2016.

On February 23, 1927, Babe Ruth had still to hit 60 home runs in a season. Yet President Calvin Coolidge would that day sign a bill that would establish how radio spectrum—the “economic oxygen” of the emerging information age—would still be governed 90 years later. Markets would be pre-empted, no ownership of the “ether” would […]

Professor Raymond Sauer was featured in a recent edition of the Washington Examiner on the economic impact of the Super Bowl.