American economist
Bruce Yandle writes for The Hill about the Inflation Reduction Act’s ability to live up to its name. By signing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) into law, President…
Bruce Yandle writes at the Washington Examiner about President Biden’s wealth redistribution schemes. On reviewing elements of President Joe Biden’s extraordinarily extensive $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, George Bernard Shaw’s…
Why don't we have more nuclear power plants? In seeking an answer, Duke University economics professor Michael Munger builds on Clemson University economist Bruce Yandle's insight on the regulatory alliance…
Matt Ridley explains how it happened at the Rational Optimist: More people use ecigarettes in the UK than in any other European country. It’s more officially encouraged than in the…
The Market Forces Behind North Carolina’s Falling Emissions. New research shows that improvements are market-oriented, not government-driven
The John Locke Foundation recently published a Spotlight (Hard to Swallow: Maze of Rules Hinders Expansion of State’s Alcoholic Beverage Industry) based on a talk I gave last summer at…
The Cato Institute regularly publishes a report titled Freedom in the 50 States.1 According to the most recent edition, since 2010, North Carolina has improved substantially, advancing from 26th to…
A recent Daily Journal at CarolinaJournal.com reviewed Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith’s book, Bootleggers & Baptists, which describes political alliances between groups pursuing the same ends for different reasons: bootleggers’…
Environmental activists tend to bash electric utility companies like Duke Energy. But the activists and Duke both support efforts to mandate use of so-called “green” or “clean” energy. Anti-smoking advocates…
In this Freeman piece, Clemson economics professor Bruce Yandle examines the IRS scandal through “public choice” lenses and finds that abuse by government officials of people who want to restrain…
Clemson economics professor Bruce Yandle reflects here on VP Joe Biden’s recent extravagant trip to London and Paris. I like his approach to comparing the cost to the lifetime earnings…
In today’s Freeman piece, Clemson economics professor Bruce Yandle offers some common sense about the use of microscopically small savings by canceling White House tours as a means to defeat…