Department of Economics

Professor Rachel Friedberg Quoted in The Atlantic on Trump Tariffs

Professor Rachel Friedberg, Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Economics, was quoted in The Atlantic on November 15th. On the issue of Trump's restrictive trade plan, author Ellen Cushing says, “this cause-and-effect dynamic ‘could be my final exam,’ Rachel Friedberg, who teaches ‘Principles of Economics’ at Brown University, told me. ‘It’s just very straightforward principles of economics.’”

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