People & Achievements: Clemson’s Yandle receives national award

Clemson University’s Bruce Yandle has been named the 2016 recipient of the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Yandle, who is dean emeritus of Clemson’s College of Business and Behavioral Science, began his career as an economics professor at Clemson in 1969 and retired in 2000. He returned to serve as dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science from 2004 to 2007. As a senior fellow of Clemson’s Strom Thurmond Institute of Government Affairs, he produces a quarterly newsletter that analyzes national, regional and state economic trends and activity. He has written more than 100 journal articles and written or edited 16 books.