Thomas Hazlett

Thomas Hazlett

Thomas Hazlett is Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University, and has previously held positions at U.C. Davis, George Mason University, the Wharton School, Chapman University, Columbia University, the Hoover Institution and as Chief Economist of the FCC. His expertise is in law and economics, communications markets, and government regulation. He has been awarded the Jefferson Science Fellowship by the National Academy of Sciences, and is a co-principal investigator of SpectrumX, an NSF Innovation Center. He has published extensively in scholarly journals and popular journals, and was a columnist in the Financial Times. His most recent book is, THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM: THE TUMULTUOUS LIBERATION OF WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, FROM HERBERT HOOVER TO THE SMARTPHONE (Yale, 2017).