Thomas Winslow Hazlett is Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University. His most recent book is The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smart Phone (Yale University Press).
Thomas W. Hazlett
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Twenty Years of Books
Lynn Scarlett looks back on the bestsellers, and Clarence Thomas, Martha Bayles, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Alex Kozinski, James C. Miller, and others reflect on books that made a difference.
Interview with Yakov Smirnoff
"What a country!" The Comrade of comics remembers the Department of Jokes, Club Red, and Leonid Brezhnev's greatest line.
Interview with Charles Murray
How best to help the poor? That question has long occupied the author of the pathbreaking book Losing Ground. And he's come up with some controversial, eye-opening answers.
The Ovals
Make way, Hollywood! It's time to hand out awards for the real entertainment of 1984-the race for the Oval Office
Convention Comedy
The Democratic and Republican conventions played like a farce, but the actors on the political stage are deadly serious.
Interview with George Stigler
He won the 1982 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on the economics of information. George Stigler's got some things to say about the information of economics, as well.
They Built Their Own Highway…
and other tales of private land-use planning
Interview with Warren Brookes
A successful businessman-turned-writer, syndicated columnist Warren Brookes observes today's economic scene and its problems and promises
The Viewer Is the Loser!
Cable technology promised a TV revolution, but politicians and monopolists prefer business as usual.
REASON Interview: Arthur Laffer
A California economist talks about his curve, his critics, his case, and his conversion.
Interview with Robert Bleiberg
The editor of Barron's talks about business and the Fourth Estate, inflation and collapse, Carter and Reagan, taxes and the economy.
No-Frills Socialism
Has the economy become a zero-sum game?
Interview with Thomas Sowell
A UCLA economist talks about blacks and the marketplace, women and work, freedom and equality.
Interview with Robert Ringer
Restoring the American dream…what are the prospects?
