Yandle honored with APEE Adam Smith Award
April 18, 2012
CLEMSON, SC – April 18, 2012 – Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of Clemson University’s Collegeof Business and Behavioral Science and Alumni Distinguished ProfessorEmeritus of economics, has received the Adam Smith Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE).
The association includes teachers, scholars and businessprofessionals who focus on the study and support of private enterprise.The Adam Smith Award is the highest honor bestowed by APEE toindividuals who have made lasting contributions to perpetuation of thefree market. The recipients have acquired international reputations aseloquent scholars and advocates of free enterprise and the system ofentrepreneurship.
APEE selects individuals, who through their writing, speaking andprofessional lives, have focused attention upon the fundamentalprinciples representing the association. Yandle has served as vicepresident, president and a board member of APEE.
This is indeed a high honor. I am grateful to the many colleagues and students who assisted me along the way, he said.
Yandle began as an economics professor at Clemson in 1969 and retiredin 2000, returning to serve as dean of the College of Business andBehavioral Science from 2004 to 2007. As a senior fellow of Clemson’sStrom Thurmond Institute of Government Affairs, he produces a quarterlynewsletter that analyzes national, regional and state economic trendsand activity. He also is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at theMercatus Institute at George Mason University.
Yandle has served as executive director of the U.S. Federal TradeCommission, as a member and chairman of the South Carolina State Boardof Economic Advisors and as chairman of the board of trustees ofSpartanburg Methodist College.
Bruce Yandle is the perfect candidate for this award,” said BradHobbs, APEE vice president. “He has a prolific professional vitae thathas had tremendous effects on the profession of economics while alsoholding numerous leadership positions within the economics profession.The support of the APEE board was strong and universal; all of felthonored to have known and worked with Bruce at every level. Bruce is whothey were speaking of when the phrase ‘a scholar and a gentleman’ wascoined — he truly fits that definition.
