Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
Adjunct Scholar
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. examines "new economy" regulatory issues including antitrust policy, privacy, "spam" and intellectual property; competition policy issues such as alternatives to mandatory "open access" in network industry structures; and various Internet governance issues. He is the author of the annual report, Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker's Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. Crews' writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Journal of Commerce, Washington Times, Consumer's Research, Insight, Electricity Journal, Policy Sciences, the Journal of Regulation and Social Costs. He has made media appearances on PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and Voice of America. Crews is the Vice President for Regulatory Policy and Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Earlier, he was Director of Technology Policy at The Cato Institute, Director of Competition and Regulation Policy at the Competititive Enterprise Institute, a legislative aide to Sen. Phil Gramm on regulatory and welfare reform issues, an economist and policy analyst at Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, an economist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He holds a master's of business administration from the College of William and Mary and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Lander College in Greenwood, S.C. Crews is a member of the editorial board of www.antitrust.org, and runs the Web site www.hyperfamily.com. Crews is married with three children.
Books and Book Chapters
Who Rules the Net?, coeditor (2003).
What's Yours Is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism, coauthor (2003).
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, contributor (2002)
Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age, coeditor (2002)
"Intellectual Property," Chapter 40 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 108th Congress.
Cato Studies
"Birth of the Digital New Deal: An Inventory of High-Tech Pork-Barrel Spending," by Adam D. Thierer, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Thomas Pearson, Policy Analysis no. 457, October 28, 2002.
"Human Bar Code: Monitoring Biometric Technologies in a Free Society," Policy Analysis no. 452, September 17, 2002.
"The Digital Dirty Dozen: The Most Destructive High-Tech Legislative Measures of the 107th Congress," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer, Policy Analysis no. 423, February 4, 2002.
"Why Canning "Spam" Is a Bad Idea," Policy Analysis no. 408, July 26, 2001.
"The Antitrust Terrible 10: Why the Most Reviled "Anti-competitive" Business Practices Can Benefit Consumers in the New Economy," Policy Analysis no. 405, June 28, 2001.
Articles and Newsletters
"The Plot to Stop the Internet Telephone Revolution," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., TechKnowledge, February 9, 2004.
"Google as a Public Utility? No Results in This Search for Monopoly," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., TechKnowledge, November 14, 2003.
"Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State," Cato Paper, June 8, 2003.
"Entitled to Entertainment? The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer, TechKnowledge, January 13, 2003.
"A Defense of Media Monopoly," Communications Lawyer, vol. 23, no. 3, Fall 2003.
Opinion and Commentary
"The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats?)," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer, OpinionJournal.com (WSJ), October 9, 2005
"Freedom to Choose Google's "Gmail"," Cato.org, May 1, 2004
"Everybody Wants to Rule the Web," by Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Cato.org, December 17, 2003
"Wishful Anti-spam Thinking," Washington Times, December 7, 2003
"What Media Monopolies?," by Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., The Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2003
Speeches and Testimony
"Spam and its Effects on Small Business," Congressional Testimony before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight of the Committee on Small, October 30, 2003.
"Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Regulation," Congressional Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, May 10, 2001.
Multimedia
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. discusses media ownership rules on WUSA-TV (June 3, 2003) [Real Media]
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. discusses media ownership rules on CNNfn (May 28, 2003) [Real Media]
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. debates a federal air passenger database on MSNBC (March 10, 2003) [Real Media]
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. looks at regulation and technology at Cato's 25th Anniversary Policy Day (May 10, 2002) [Real Media]