Thomas W. Hazlett

H.H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics
Clemson University

Thomas W. Hazlett is the Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University, where he also serves as director of the Information Economy Project. He is also founder and managing director of Arlington Economics LLC and founder and partner of New Airwaves LLC.

Hazlett was previously Professor of Law & Economics at George Mason University and was earlier a professor at the University of California at Davis. He has also held positions as visiting faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; and chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

He received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).