Gabriel A. Lozada is an associate professor of economics at the University of Utah, where he teaches courses in microeconomic theory, natural resource economics, and environmental economics. He grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University, where he received a BA in Economics and a BS in Physics. He then attended Stanford University, receiving there an MA in Economics, an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems, and a Ph.D. in Economics. His areas of research mostly include ecological economics and economic models of sustainability, both environmental sustainability and sustainable investment and consumption paths during an individual鈥檚 life cycle. He has also modeled the financing burdens imposed by large proposed water development projects in Utah.
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Distribution Matters: Flawed Welfare Foundations in Classic Free Trade Arguments
The argument that free trade is always the correct policy is based on a flawed welfare analysis. Free trade results in winners and losers and economists are not competent to analyze the impact on well-being as a whole or the spillover social consequences of the discontent of the losers.
The Flawed Welfare Foundations of Pro-Free Trade Arguments
The argument that free trade is always the correct policy is based on a flawed welfare analysis. Free trade results in winners and losers and economists are not competent to analyze the impact on well-being as a whole or the spillover social consequences of the discontent of the losers.
Rebooting Antitrust鈥檚 Normative Economic Theory
Industrial organization economists have caused antitrust to cling to an antiquated and disproven economic theory.
Antitrust鈥檚 Normative Economic Theory Needs a Reboot
Welfare economists and moral philosophers have shown that the Consumer Welfare Standard is biased in favor of wealthy individuals and corporations—the very powers the antitrust law is supposed to regulate.