Thomas W. Hazlett is an internationally recognized expert on telecommunications policy and founder and director of the Information Economy Project, which analyzes information markets using insights from law and economics. He is former chief economist at US Federal Communications Commission, is widely published in both academic and popular journals, and was a columnist for the Financial Times. His book The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone (Yale, 2017), was named one of the top books of the year by the Consumer Technology Association. Hazlett was intellectually influenced by FA Hayek, whom he interviewed in 1977 and in 1978.