Gordon Hanson's Research Cited on the Boston Globe
The sound of saber-rattling against China
01/27/2012
Edward L. Glaeser,
The Boston Globe
While many arguments for slapping tariffs on Chinese goods are essentially emotional, a few are more substantive. For one, as Alexander Hamilton famously argued, tariffs can encourage the growth of infant industries. But America can also encourage growing industries without harming American consumers, by investing in basic research and education.
Another argument is that tariffs can, in principle, protect workers from trade-related dislocation. Economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson found that US manufacturing employment between 1990 and 2007 fell more in geographic areas dominated by industries that compete with Chinese manufacturers.
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Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UC San Diego in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).
