Jody W. Lipford is Professor of Economics at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. His research interests span from environmental economics to public finance to sports economics, and he has published in the journals Public Finance Review, The Independent Review, The Journal of Sport, and Political Economy in the Carolinas. In 2008 he won the Templeton prize for Article of the Year in The Journal of Private Enterprise, and in 2012 he won Presbyterian College’s award for Faculty Scholarship. He served as visiting scholar at the Property and Environmental Research Center in 2003, and he conducted the research for this presentation while visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Free Enterprise at Western Carolina University.

Jody was the second speaker of the 2019 season and spoke to the CEC on Wednesday March 6, 2019. His topic was entitled “The Political Economy of Resource Misallocation in the Energy Sector: A Case Study of South Carolina’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Project.”