Rate My Professor Thomas Hazlett

Thomas Hazlett holds the H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University’s Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business. A key figure in Business & Economics, he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Hazlett joined Clemson in 2014 after serving as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 1991 to 1992. He previously held faculty positions at the University of California, Davis, Columbia University, the Wharton School, and George Mason University School of Law. As Director of the Information Economy Project at Clemson University, he oversees research initiatives focused on technology policy.

Hazlett conducts research in the field of Law and Economics, specializing in the Information Economy, which includes the analysis of markets and regulation in telecommunications, media, and the Internet. His fields of interest are Law & Economics, Public Choice, and Information Technology. He has published extensively in prestigious academic journals, including the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Rand Journal of Economics. Key publications include "The Rationality of U.S. Regulation of the Broadcast Spectrum" (Journal of Law & Economics, 1990), "Property Rights and the Value of Wireless Licenses" (Journal of Law & Economics, 2008), "A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies" (Rand Journal of Economics, 2009), "The Wireless Craze, the Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, the Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase's 'Big Joke'" (Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, 2000), and his book "The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone" (Yale University Press, 2017). Hazlett has contributed articles to outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reason, The Economist, and Financial Times, serving as a columnist on technology policy issues from 2002 to 2011. He has provided expert testimony to federal and state courts, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, foreign governments, and international organizations.