What Economists Are Against the IEEPA Tariffs? What Economists Are in Favor?

Amicus Brief, and NTU Open Letter:

Signatories:

• • Stan Veuger is Senior Fellow at the American
    Enterprise Institute and Visiting Lecturer of
    Economics at Harvard University.
  • Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor at the
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
    received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.
  • Alan J. Auerbach is Professor of the Graduate School
    and Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law,
    Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He
    served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee
    on Taxation in 1992.
  • Robert J. Barro is Paul M. Warburg Professor of
    Economics at Harvard University.
  • Ben Bernanke is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the
    Brookings Institution. He served as Member of the
    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from
    2002 to 2005, as Chair of the Council of Economic
    Advisers from 2005 to 2006, and as Chair of the Board of
    Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to
    2014. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2022.

• Andrew G. Biggs (n) is Senior Fellow at the American
  Enterprise Institute and serves as Member of the
  Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto
  Rico. He served as Principal Deputy Commissioner and
  in other senior positions at the Social Security
  Administration between 2003 and 2007.
• Emily J. Blanchard is Associate Professor at the Tuck
  School of Business at Dartmouth College. She served as
  Chief Economist at the Department of State from 2022
  to 2023.
• Alan Blinder is Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial
  Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton
  University. He served as Member of the Council of
  Economic Advisers between 1993 and 1994, and as Vice
  Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal
  Reserve System between 1994 and 1996.

• Michael D. Bordo is Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  at Rutgers University, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at
  the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and
  Distinguished Visitor at the Griswold Center for
  Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University.
• Donald J. Boudreaux is Professor of Economics at
  George Mason University, Martha and Nelson Getchell
  Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism and
  Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for
  Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
  at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
  and Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute.
• Alex Brill is Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise
  Institute. He served as Policy Director and Chief
  Economist of the House Ways and Means Committee
  between 2002 and 2007, and as Staff Economist at the
  Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2002.
• Daniel Bunn is President and CEO of the Tax
  Foundation. Between 2013 and 2018 he worked as Senior
  Policy Advisor to the Senate’s Joint Economic
  Committee and on the policy staff for Senators Mike Lee
  and Tim Scott.
• James C. Capretta is Senior Fellow and the Milton
  Friedman Chair at the American Enterprise Institute.
  He served as Associate Director for Human Resource
  Programs at the Office of Management and Budget from
  2001 to 2004.
• Steve Cicala is Associate Professor of Economics at
  Tufts University.
• Kimberly Clausing holds the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax
  Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, and is
  nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for
  International Economics. She served as Deputy
  Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis
  from 2021 to 2022.
• Steven J. Davis is Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior
  Fellow and Director of Research at the Hoover
  Institution at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at
  the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
• Mihir A. Desai is Mizuho Financial Group Professor of
  Finance at Harvard Business School and Professor of
  Law at Harvard Law School.
• Karen Dynan is Professor of the Practice of Economic
  Policy at Harvard University, and nonresident Senior
  Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International
  Economics. She served as Assistant Secretary of the
  Treasury for Economic Policy from 2013 to 2017.
• Douglas Elmendorf is Professor of Public Policy at
  Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
  He served as Director of the Congressional Budget
  Office from 2009 to 2015.
• Jason Furman is Aetna Professor of the Practice of
  Economic Policy at Harvard University, and
  nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for
  International Economics. He served as Chair of the
  Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
• Samuel Gregg (n) is President and Friedrich Hayek Chair
  in Economics and Economic History at the American
  Institute for Economic Research.
• Keith Hall is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the
  Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He
  served as Director of the Congressional Budget Office
  from 2015 to 2019 and as Commissioner of the Bureau of
  Labor Statistics from 2008 to 2012.
• Kyle Handley is Professor of Economics, Rafael and
  Marina Pastor Chancellor’s Endowed GPS Faculty
  Fellow, and Director of the Center for Commerce and
  Diplomacy at the University of California, San Diego’s
  School of Global Policy and Strategy.
• Ben Harris is Vice President and Director of Economic
  Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he also holds
  the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair. He served
  as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief
  Economist at the Department of the Treasury from 2021
  to 2023, as Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to
  the Vice President from 2014 to 2017, and as Senior
  Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers from
  2011 to 2013.
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin is President of the American
  Action Forum. He was Director of the Congressional
  Budget Office from 2003 to 2005, and served as Chief
  Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers from
  2001 to 2002.
• Simon Johnson is Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of
  Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of
  Management. He served as Chief Economist of the
  International Monetary Fund between 2007 and 2008.
  He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.
• Steven B. Kamin is Senior Fellow at the American
  Enterprise Institute. He was Director of the Division of
  International Finance at the Board of Governors of the
  Federal Reserve System from 2011 to 2020.
• Mary E. Lovely is Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow
  at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
  and Professor Emerita of Economics at Syracuse
  University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
  Affairs.
• Philip A. Luck served as Deputy Chief Economist at the
  Department of State from 2022 to 2025.
• N. Gregory Mankiw is Robert M. Beren Professor of
  Economics at Harvard University. He served as Chair
  of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005.
  Marc Melitz is David A. Wells Professor of Political
  Economy at Harvard University.
• Jeffrey Miron is Senior Lecturer and Director of
  Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the
  Department of Economics at Harvard University, and
  Vice President for Research at the Cato Institute.
• Marc-Andreas Muendler is Professor of Economics and
  Founding Director of the Globalization and Prosperity
  Lab at the University of California, San Diego.
• Roger Myerson is the David L. Pearson Distinguished
  Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the
  University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Prize in
  Economics in 2007.
• Brent Neiman is Edward Eagle Brown Professor of
  Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of
  Business. He served as Counselor to the Secretary of the
  Treasury and as Deputy Undersecretary of the
  Treasury for International Finance from 2022 to 2025.
• Stephen O’Connell is Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of
  Economics at Swarthmore College. He served as Chief
  Economist at the United States Agency for
  International Development from 2014 to 2015.
• Kyle Pomerleau is Senior Fellow at the American
  Enterprise Institute.
• Mark Sobel is US Chairman at the Official Monetary and
  Financial Institutions Forum. He served as Deputy
  Assistant Secretary for International Monetary and
  Financial Policy from 2000 to 2015 and as U.S.
  Representative at the International Monetary Fund
  from 2015 to 2018.
• Michael R. Strain is Director of Economic Policy Studies
  and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the
  American Enterprise Institute, and Professor of
  Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at
  Georgetown University.
• Laura D. Tyson is Distinguished Professor of the
  Graduate School at the Haas School of Business,
  University of California, Berkeley. She served as Chair
  of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995
  and as Chair of the National Economic Council from 1995
  to 1996.
• Stan Veuger is Senior Fellow at the American
  Enterprise Institute and Visiting Lecturer of
  Economics at Harvard University.
• Alan D. Viard is Senior Fellow Emeritus at the
  American Enterprise Institute. He served as Visiting
  Scholar at the US Department of the Treasury’s Office
  of Tax Analysis in 2005, and as Senior Economist at the
  White House’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2003
  to 2004.
• Mark J. Warshawsky is Senior Fellow and Wilson H.
  Taylor Chair in Health Care and Retirement Policy at
  the American Enterprise Institute. He served as
  Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
  from 2004 to 2006.
• Janet Yellen is Distinguished Fellow in Residence at the
  Brookings Institution. She served as Chair of the
  Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999, as
  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  from 2004 to 2010, as Chair of the Board of Governors of
  the Federal Reserve System from 2014 to 2018, and as
  Secretary of the Treasury from 2021 to 2025.
• Owen Zidar is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
  at Princeton University. He served as Staff Economist
  at the Council of Economic Advisers from 2010 to 2011.

(n) denotes no postgraduate degree in economics, finance, public policy.

From the Letter:

Economists in favor of the IEEPA tariffs – an incomplete list:

• Dr. Art Laffer
• Stephen Moore
• Dr. Stephen Miran
• Dr. EJ Antoni
• Dr. Peter Navarro

I excluded self-identified economists without a post-graduate economics, policy analysis, finance, or applied economics degrees. Including those with only advanced law degree:

• Oren Cass

Suggestions welcome.