I am writing to you in behalf of a committee organizing an open letter to protest Mr. Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, in particular and his protectionist policies in general. The committee consists of me, Walter Block, Loyola University New Orleans, Deirdre McCloskey, Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago, Michael Munger, Duke University and Vernon Smith, Chapman University (Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002). 1028 economists signed an open letter in opposition to the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, and it is our hope that we can mobilize more signatures than that to oppose President Trump’s proposed steel and aluminum … Continue reading Open Letter to Ph.D. Economists on Tariffs