Reed Watson is the Director of the Hayek Center and a Professor of Practice in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson, Watson was Executive Director of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), a conservation non-profit in Bozeman, Montana. His writings have graced or disgraced the pages of several books, academic journals, and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. But only once did a reader care enough to send a death threat.