Peter Navarro

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Peter Navarro (2017)

Peter Navarro (born July 15, 1949 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American economist and professor of economics at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine . The US President Donald Trump appointed him as "Director for Trade and Industrial Policy" to head a newly created National Trade Council of the USA.

Career

Navarro graduated from Harvard University in 1979 with a Masters of Public Administration and received a Ph.D. in 1986. From 1973 to 1976 he served in the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia . Navarro worked in Washington, DC as an environmental and energy policy advisor. He is a member of the Democratic Party , an environmental activist, and ran for political office several times in the 1990s. In 1992, he narrowly lost the mayoral election in San Diego with 48% of the vote against Republican Susan Golding .

In Donald Trump's presidential campaign 2015/16 the United States presidential election in 2016 , he served as Trump economic policy advisor; as " President-elect " Trump announced on December 22, 2016 that Navarro would be appointed as "Director of Trade and Industrial Policy" to head a newly created " National Trade Council ". He praised Navarro as a "visionary economist".

theses

Navarro is considered a crude outsider by economists. In his 2011 book Death by China , he wrote that the rise of China should be stopped at any cost; China is responsible for America's "decline". He is an advocate of isolationist (economic) politics, protectionism supporter and considers the US trade deficit of several hundred billion US dollars as harmful to the US economy. Navarro has said that in future "no more US interests should be sacrificed on the altar of world trade ". Navarro's theses from the book Death by China were received by the US media as "too shrill and xenophobic ".

Navarro has explained why he regards trade deficits as principally detrimental to economic growth : The gross domestic product of a country is the sum of sales from consumption , investments , government spending and the external contribution ( exports minus imports ). The smaller the external contribution, the larger the trade deficit, the lower the gross domestic product. This simple calculation, however, only considers how a gross domestic product is used ; which factors favor or cause economic growth (increasing productivity is caused , among other things, by specialization and trade ) is not taken into account.

Publications (selection)

  • 2006: When It Rains In Brazil, Invest In Starbucks Stock! Understand the fundamental relationships between international markets. FinanzBook Verlag , Munich, ISBN 978-3-89879-148-9
  • 2007: The complete knowledge of the best MBAs. FinanzBook Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-89879-264-6
  • 2008: The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won . Revised and Expanded Edition, FT Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-13-235982-5
    • German: The fight for the future. The world in a Chinese stranglehold. FinanzBook Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89879-316-2
  • 2011 (with Greg Autry): Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action. ISBN 978-0-13-431903-2
  • 2015: Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World. Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-63388-114-3

Personal

Navarro is married to the architect Leslie Lebon and the couple live in Laguna Beach, California .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA . In: Time . June 24, 2001, ISSN  0040-781X ( time.com [accessed December 23, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Peter Navarro on theglobalist.com (English). Retrieved August 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Robin Bravender, Zack Colman, E&E News: A "Pit Bull" for Climate Could Soon Sit Next to Trump (en) . In: Scientific American . Retrieved March 22, 2018. 
  4. ^ Election Results - Mayor, City of San Diego . City of San Diego. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Kathrin Werner: This man explains the economy to Donald Trump. Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 24, 2016.
  6. ^ A b Martin Lanz: New US administration: Trump creates a protectionism council . In: NZZ.ch . December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b c Holger Zschäpitz: Trump's crude isolation preacher means disaster. Die Welt , December 22, 2016, accessed December 23, 2016 .
  8. ^ Anja Ettel: Economy: Trump's advisors are seen as a global economic threat. In: welt.de . November 9, 2016, accessed December 25, 2016 .
  9. ↑ documents (English)
  10. ↑ foreign policy November 7, 2016 / Peter Navarro: Donald Trump's Peace Through Strength Vision for the Asia-Pacific
  11. ↑ FAZ.net March 8, 2017 / Winand von Petersdorff: Trump's new director for world trade irritates economists
  12. ↑ (Correspondingly: Tiger in the leap: What China's militarism means for the world. Crouchingtiger.net , December 27, 2016)
  13. ↑ lebonarchitects.com (February 8, 2017)
  14. ^ Somer Flaherty: Architects at Home . In: Laguna Beach Magazine . October 12, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Navarro, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge Massachusetts , United States