ACADEMICS

Faculty

Dr. Bruce Yandle -Economics Professor
Bruce Yandle is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of Clemson University’s College of Business & Behavioral Science. Dr.Yandle has served on the faculties of George Mason University’s Capitol Hill Campus, as a visiting lecturer at the University of Montpellier (France) School of Law, and has taught in Clemson MBA programs in Germany and Italy. He served in Washington on two occasions, first as senior economist on White House staff during the Ford and Carter Administrations and later as Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission in the Reagan Administration. Dr. Yandle was a member and chairman of South Carolina’s State Board of Economic Advisors. He is past chairman of the board of trustees of Spartanburg Methodist College and was president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Dr. Yandle was in the industrial machinery business for 15 years. Author or editor of 15 books on regulation and environmental economics, he writes a quarterly newsletter on the economy that is posted on Clemson University’s Thurmond Institute’s website.

Kurt Rotthoff is an Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University, which is located in South Orange, NJ (20 kilometers from New York City).  Dr. Rotthoff teaches Money & Banking and Sport Finance to undergraduate and MBA students. He holds a B.S. from Westminster College (PA), and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Clemson University (SC) .  His research interests include Financial Economics, Sport Finance, Behavioral Finance, Industrial Organization and Education Finance.  His paper entitled "Could Affirmative Action be Efficient in Higher Education?" will appear in an upcoming issue of Economics Letters and he has several other papers under review. Last year he was part of AIPES as a Teaching Assistant and is very excited to be back this year on the faculty. 

Dr. Roger Pilon- Government Professor
Roger Pilon is vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute where he holds the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies. He is the founder and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies and the publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. He is also an adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University through The Fund for American Studies. Pilon’s writings have appeared in the nation’s major media and he is a frequent guest on radio and TV. He lectures and debates at universities and law schools across the country and testifies often before Congress. Prior to joining Cato he held five senior posts in the Reagan administration, including at State and Justice. He has taught philosophy and law and was a national fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Pilon holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law. In 1989 the Bicentennial Commission presented him with the Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in writing on the U.S. Constitution. In 2001 Columbia University's School of General Studies awarded him its Alumni Medal of Distinction.