1. 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 directs the Information Economy Project.
11 Facts About Thomas Hazlett
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Thomas Hazlett is a founding partner of the consulting firm, Arlington Economics, with economists David Porter and Vernon L Smith.
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Thomas Hazlett serves as a Director of the Telecommunications Research Policy Conference, and is a member of the editorial boards of INFO, Telecommunications Policy, and the Supreme Court Economic Review.
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Thomas Hazlett is the author of several books, most recently releasing The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone in May 2017.
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From 2005 to 2013, Thomas Hazlett was Professor of Law and Economics at George Mason University.
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Thomas Hazlett's research is focused on the public choice and public policy aspects of regulatory measures in the communications sector.
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Thomas Hazlett showed that radio broadcasting actually developed according to common law property rules and that the move to political control was the result of pressure by incumbent radio stations and key policy makers to foreclose competitive entry.
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Thomas Hazlett has written extensively about regulation in cable TV markets, promoting the consumer advantages of head-to-head competition and advocating the removal of franchise barriers.
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Thomas Hazlett served as the economic expert in Preferred Communications v City of Los Angeles, the 1986 case in which the Supreme Court effectively declared monopoly cable TV franchises to be a violation of the First Amendment.
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Thomas Hazlett has written about problems in the development of cable competition and his 1995 article, "Predation in Local Cable TV Markets," is cited as one of the strongest documentations that predatory pricing occurred.
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Thomas Hazlett was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the San Fernando Valley.