May 20, 2022
This commentary was also featured in Barron’s. By Thomas W. Hazlett About the author: Thomas W. Hazlett is H.H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University, and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Both Republicans and Democrats are desperate to deal social media a beating. No matter how Elon Musk’s […]
February 1, 2022
Originally appearing online in City Journal Rationing Revisionism: Modern defenses of price controls overlook the example of postwar West Germany. Thomas W. Hazlett January 31, 2022 Much is being made of the fact that prominent economists, following World War II, urged the continuation of wartime price controls in the U.S. to combat inflation. While President […]
January 28, 2022
Originally appearing in the New York Times By Peter Coy Opinion Writer The snafu over 5G cellular service at U.S. airports is unfortunate and unnecessary. From what I can tell, most of the blame falls on a bureaucratic battle between sister agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Communications Commission. Politics trumped economics. The […]
October 28, 2021
Professor Thomas Hazlett’s WSJ editorial weighs in on Broadband and the infrastructure bill. Read the editorial: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-broadband-boondoggle-gao-infrastructure-digital-divide-rural-sandwich-isles-11633552660?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1
March 20, 2020
Thomas Hazlett, Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Chair of Economics and Director of the Information Economy Project at Clemson University, weighs in on a Senate subcommittee hearing discussing “platform monopolists” such as Apple and Google. The hearing, which included testimony from a noted economics professor, the president of an app industry trade association, and a public […]
February 6, 2020
Should IBM and other international cloud computing enterprises move their Asian businesses away from Hong Kong? The prolonged US-China trade dispute, coupled with anti-government protests, could trigger an exodus of capital and talent from Hong Kong. Last October, Goldman Sachs estimated that Hong Kong may have lost US$4 billion of capital to Singapore. More recently, […]
February 5, 2020
Patrick Warren, associate professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics, and Darren Linvill, associate professor in the Department of Communication, expose the methods used by Russian trolls and educate students on how to be more cautious social media users. “Destroying empathy is their end goal, and disgust is the mechanism,” Warren said. “Infect enough […]
January 30, 2020
A Lesson for Today’s Tech Trustbusters The AOL-Time Warner merger was going to dominate the internet. Today both companies barely exist. By Thomas W. Hazlett Jan. 9, 2020 7:01 pm ET It was the biggest corporate merger in history, and it stunned the markets. On Jan. 10, 2000, America Online, the world’s largest internet […]
January 30, 2020
The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech Left and right are joining forces under the banner of “hipster antitrust.” THOMAS W. HAZLETT | FROM THE OCTOBER 2019 ISSUE Jeff Bezos “is worried about me,” grinned Donald Trump back in 2016 while discussing Amazon’s bald-headed billionaire. “He thinks I would go after him for antitrust, because he’s got […]
November 21, 2019
Touched by Russian Trolls: How and Why a Coordinated Information Operation Interacts with Outsiders. Information Economy Seminar featuring Patrick Warren Watch Warren’s Lecture.
