Profile
Bobby McCormick was born and grew up, begrudgingly and somewhat, a Southerner, but it was a long time ago. He knows, and even likes, some Yankees. He graduated Clemson University, combined with a two-year interruption for military service as 1LT in the U.S. Army (which served him well). With a great deal of luck he earned the Ph.D in Economics from Texas A&M University in 1978. He has managed to finagle appointments at the University of Rochester, Virginia Tech, Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala), CIMBA (Asolo Italy), and, of course, Clemson University. Amazingly, he was named BB&T Scholar and Director of the BB&T Center for Economic Education at Clemson. In 2002, he was recognized as Senior Fellow at Property Environment Economy Research Center in Bozeman, MT, a position he has managed to hold on to until this day, but who knows what tomorrow holds as they may yet come to their senses. In a mild vote counting fraud, not dissimilar to the 2000 Presidential Election mess, he won several Clemson University teaching awards, The Prince Innovative Teacher of the Year (1998), the Alumni Professor of the Year (2000), the MBA Professor of the Year (several occasions), and the National Scholars Mentor Award (2004 and 2006). He has served inauspiciously as consultant to a number of U.S. and foreign governmental agencies, the U.S. Congress and several state legislatures. He refuses to be held accountable for the actions of any of these bodies. Bobby is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and previously the Southern Economic Journal. Bobby enjoys consulting these days in corporate financial affairs, litigation matters, golf economics, entrepreneurship, organizational structure and architecture, business planning and development, and financial valuation. He does a fair amount of environmental consulting, particularly in the arena of ecosystem services valuation. His scholarly research covers a rather broad spectrum in the area of microeconomics including the areas of antitrust, public choice, regulation, sports and economics, managerial and financial economics, environmental economics, and general microeconomic theory. Other stuff he has written that hardly anyone reads covers managerial economics, energy and gambling markets, and the regulatory environment. Bobby loves the smell of wood chips and sawdust, the whir of his bicycle pedals, hunting, kayaking, all things Montana, and the sublime perfectness of Edisto Beach. He has been known to attend a Clemson football game on occasion. An old family farm in south Georgia restores his soul and reminds him of wonderful, youthful days gone by where he learned to pulpwood, sawmill, cut calves, hay, and drive a tractor. He has two mildly grown up sons who light each day, and he is married to his love, Ms. Valerie Jean DeVries McCormick who, in addition to being his wife, saves him huge sums by also being his therapist.