Bruce Yandle

Bruce Yandle is the interim dean of Clemson University's College of Business & Behavior Sciences and a professor of economics emeritus at Clemson. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, and a faculty member with George Mason University's Capitol Hill Campus. He has served as executive director of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and served on the "President's Council on Wage and Price Stability" from 1976 to 1978.

Yandle received his MBA and PhD from Georgia State University. His main research interest is free market environmentalism.

Prior to starting his career in academia, Yandle had a fifteen-year career in the industrial machinery business. He lives with his wife in Round Oak, Georgia.

Regulation

Yandle was the first to put forth the story of the bootlegger and the Baptist, which describes how economic and ethical interests ally with one another to promote regulation, even though the two groups would never interact otherwise.

Publications

Yandle has authored or edited fourteen books, including:

*"Taking the Environment Seriously"
*"The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation"
*"Environmental Use and the Market"
*"Land Rights"
*"The Economics of Environmental Quality"
*"Common Law and Common Sense for the Environment"

Links

* [http://www.mercatus.org/People/id.127,cfilter.0/people.asp Profile at Mercatus]
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/01/bruce_yandle_on.html Interview with Russ Roberts on the Bootleggers and the Baptists at EconTalk]
* [http://www.perc.org/bio.php?staff_id=14 Profile at PERC]
* [http://www.strom.clemson.edu/teams/ced/esr/january2008.pdf Yandle 2008 economic forecast]