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
Power to the People
By William Yeatman, Clyde Wayne Crews, December 14, 2008
Online marketing myopia
By Clyde Wayne Crews, August 6, 2008
A ‘Hidden Tax’ Of Rules Hits Economy
By Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young, August 5, 2008
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
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
The Flexibility Solution
By Clyde Wayne Crews, June 28, 2007
Giving Chase in Cyberspace
By Clyde Wayne Crews, October 24, 2006
news release
An Agenda for the Obama and Bush Meeting
By Clyde Wayne Crews, November 10, 2008
FCC to Vote on Cable TV Regulation
By Clyde Wayne Crews, November 26, 2007
Costs of Federal Regulation Reach New Heights
By Clyde Wayne Crews, June 29, 2006
Statement on the “Audio Flag” Provisions of the "Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment"
By Clyde Wayne Crews, June 22, 2006
recent citations
Clyde Wayne Crews on regulatory reform and Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Business Edge, Nov. 14, 2008
Clyde Wayne Crews on the prospect of a national "Technology Czar"
Ars Technica, Nov. 5, 2008
Clyde Wayne Crews on Spitzer and Sarbox Were Deregulation?
The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 31, 2008
Clyde Wayne Crews on The Costs of Federal Regulation
Forbes, Sep. 1, 2008
Clyde Wayne Crews on the FCC and net neutrality
The Capital (Annapolis, MD), Jul. 31, 2008
