BRUCE YANDLE

Bruce Yandle is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of Clemson University’s College of Business & Behavioral Science. Dr. Yandle is a Senior Fellow with PERC in Bozeman, Montana, Senior Fellow with Clemson’s Thurmond Institute, and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics with George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. He has taught in international programs in Germany, Italy, and Czech Republic and has served as a visiting faculty member at the University of Montpellier’s law school. He served in Washington on two occasions, first as a senior economist on White House staff during the Ford and Carter Administrations and later as Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission in the Reagan Administration. He has been a member and chairman of South Carolina’s State Board of Economic Advisors. He is author/editor of some 15 books, including The Economics of Environmental Quality, Taking the Environment Seriously, and Common Law and Common Sense for the Environment.  He is a director and past-president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a director of Responsible Resources, and a trustee of Spartanburg Methodist College.  Prior to entering a career in university teaching, Dr. Yandle was in the industrial machinery business for 15 years.  He writes a quarterly newsletter on the economy that is distributed by Clemson’s Strom Thurmond Institute.