Clyde Wayne Crews

Vice President for Policy, Director of Technology Studies

Wayne Crews is Vice President for Policy and Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His work includes regulatory reform, antitrust and competition policy, safety and environmental issues, and various information-age concerns such as privacy, “spam,” broadband, and intellectual property.

He is the author of the yearly report, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, and co-authored the recent report “Communications without Commissions: A National Plan for Reforming Telecom Regulation.”

Crews is co-editor of the books Who Rules the Net: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction (2003) and Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property In the Information Age (2002). He is co-author of What’s Yours Is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism (2003), and a contributing author to others.

Crews is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Crews has published in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Communications Lawyer, and the Electricity Journal. He has made various TV appearances on Fox, CNN, ABC, CNBC and others, and his regulatory reform ideas have been featured prominently in such publications as the Washington Post, Forbes and Investor’s Business Daily. He is frequently invited to speak, and has testified before several congressional committees on various issues.

Earlier Wayne was a legislative aide in the United States Senate to Sen. Phil Gramm, covering regulatory and welfare reform issues. He was an Economist and Policy Analyst at Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, and has worked as an economist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and as a Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University.

He holds an M.B.A. from William and Mary and a B.S. from Lander College in Greenwood, South Carolina. Wayne is married with four children.

recent op-eds & articles

Corporate Welfare for XM/Sirius Competitors?
By Ryan Young, Clyde Wayne Crews, July 22, 2008

Rigid federal mandates hinder privacy technologies
By Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia, June 15, 2008

Less is More
By Clyde Wayne Crews, March 19, 2008

Uncertain Antitrust Trajectory
By Alex Nowrasteh, Clyde Wayne Crews, November 18, 2007

Economic Reality
By Alex Nowrasteh, Clyde Wayne Crews, October 4, 2007

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recent studies

Ten Thousand Commandments
By Clyde Wayne Crews, July 10, 2008

Still Stimulating Like It’s 1999
By Clyde Wayne Crews, February 20, 2008

Ten Thousand Commandments 2007
By Clyde Wayne Crews, July 3, 2007