Archive for Bruce Yandle
Bruce Yandle is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Cash for Clunkers Was a Loser
President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, inspired by the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act, ended August 25, 2009. As I drove through a major shopping area that day, I passed a large and highly successful Toyota dealer. Just past the sparkling showroom and sparsely populated lot of new cars, “clunkers” sat in a [...]
18Nov2009 | Bruce Yandle | 1 comment | ContinuedRegulating Executive Pay Can Reduce Systemic Risk
Late last month White House pay czar Ken Feinberg unveiled executive pay rules for 175 key players in the nation’s seven-firm TARP-assisted sector. The new rules generated different bundles of base and incentive pay for the affected executives, along with a good bit of grumbling and grousing. Unsullied by the frowns and accompanying [...]
4Nov2009 | Bruce Yandle | 20 comments | ContinuedThe Myth of Unregulated Tobacco
On June 22, President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. The law requires the FDA to develop a new tobacco-regulation center with all related costs to be covered by fees paid by the industry. [...]
19Aug2009 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | ContinuedBootleggers, Baptists, and Bailed-Out Bankers
For more than a year now, people worldwide have experienced an extraordinary chain of economic events. Led by crushing increases in U.S. mortgage-related bankruptcies, the world financial collapse that followed has been termed the subprime crisis, the financial meltdown, the Wall Street bailout, the beginning of another Great Depression, and even the end of capitalism [...]
2Mar2009 | Bruce Yandle | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Review ~ Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution by Indur M. Goklany
Cato Institute • 1999 • 189 pages • $19.95
From the mid-1960s on into the early 1980s, it seemed obvious: Were it not for the benevolent protection provided by the federal government, America’s smoke-filled cities and slime-ridden rivers would have become environmental wastelands. The caves were beckoning. Somehow simultaneously struck dumb, citizens by the [...]
Book Review ~ Policy Analysis and Public Choice:Selected Papers by William A. Niskanen
Edward Elgar · 1998 · 448 pages · $95.00
Bruce Yandle is Alumni Professor of Economic and Legal Studies at Clemson University.
This volume has much to recommend it. First off, William Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute, presents an organized collection of 34 papers that span his interesting and productive 40-year career [...]
The Commons: Tragedy or Triumph?
Bruce Yandle is Alumni Distinguished Professor Economics at Clemson University and senior associate at PERC. This article is based on a paper presented at a November 1998 UCLA colloquium on Health, the Environment, and Development. The first section is taken from his book Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).
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Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well by Terry A. Anderson and Donald R. Leal
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. • 1997 • 189 pages • $52.50 cloth; $16.95 paperback
Bruce Yandle is Alumni Professor of Economics and Legal Studies at Clemson University.
Writing about Austrian economics and the market process, Israel Kirzner explains how entrepreneurs play a crucial role in discovering products, markets, and processes for improving human welfare (Journal of [...]
The Golden Age at Risk
Bruce Yandle is Alumni Professor of Economics at Clemson University and Senior Associate at PERC (Political Economy Research Center). This article is adapted from a lecture given at the April 25, 1998, Chicago meeting of the Philadelphia Society, later reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day.
What a wonderful world! Wait a minute. What [...]
Book Review ~ Property Matters by James V. DeLong and Property Rights: Understanding Government Takings and Environmental Regulation by Nancie G. Marzulla and Roger J. Marzulla
Property Matters
by James V. DeLong
The Free Press • 1997 • 390 pages with index • $27.50
Property Rights: Understanding Government Takings and Environmental Regulation
by Nancie G. Marzulla and Roger J. Marzulla
Government Institutes • 1997 • 325 pages with index • [...]
Human Health and Costly Risk Reduction
Dr. Yandle is Alumni Professor of Economics and Legal Studies at Clemson University. This essay is based on a report written for the Environmental Issues Council. Appreciation is expressed for assistance provided by Terry Anderson, John Hosemann, Roger Meiners, and Robert Nelson.
With the Clinton administration’s misguided national health-care initiative dead, at least for now, [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
