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Dr. Robert D. TollisonDr. Robert D. Tollison
Director - BB&T Senior Fellow
Professor of Economics


Email: rtollis@clemson.edu
Office Phone:
(864) 656-0483
Office Address:
201-G Sirrine Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634

Ph.D., University of Virginia


Professor Tollison is Editor of Public Choice.  He has served on the faculties at Cornell University, Texas A & M University, Virginia Tech, Clemson University, and George Mason University, and served as Department Head at Texas A & M (1974-76) and as Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason (1984-1998). Prof. Tollison has served in government twice-- as a Senior Staff Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1971-72) and as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (1981-83). He is a past president of the Southern Economic Association (1985) and the Public Choice Society (1994-96). He is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the field of public choice, and is presently working on a major study of the integration of intercollegiate and professional sports.

Publications

Politicized EconomicsEconomics

Sacred TrustNational Collegiate Athletic Association

 


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