“Regulation, Deregulation, and the Information Economy” with Robert Crandall, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

The Tullock Lecture Featuring Big Ideas About Information brought to you by the Clemson Information Economy Project.

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ABSTRACT: Capital spending growth and productivity growth have collapsed, generating abysmally low U.S. GDP growth. Reduced regulation could improve the situation. Despite the profound success of deregulatory policies in the 1970s and 1980s, however, we have not embraced that strategy. Dr. Crandall explains how one major sector –communications –could be substantially reformed via liberalization, unleashing efficiencies. More generally, Dr. Crandall reviews evidence showing how health, safety, and environmental regulation is complex, opaque, and far too costly. He shows how outcomes could be enhanced by market-based incentives –including a plan to completely replace the EPA’s Clean Power Plan with a carbon tax.

Event will be held in Tillman Auditorium and shown live on ClemsonTV.