Bruce Yandle
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Bruce Yandle is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics at Clemson University and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center. He received his MBA and PhD from Georgia State University. From 1976 to 1978, Yandle served on the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability. His main research interest is free market environmentalism.
[edit] Regulation
Yandle was the first to put forth the story of the bootlegger and the Baptist, which describes how economic and ethical interests ally with one another to promote regulation, even though the two groups would never interact otherwise.
[edit] Publications
- Taking the Environment Seriously
- The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation
- Environmental Use and the Market
- Land Rights
- The Economics of Environmental Quality
- Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment
