From Politico today:
Miran, who Trump noted worked as a senior adviser for economic policy at the Treasury Department during the first Trump administration, holds a doctorate in Economics from Harvard University.
Miran currently is an economics fellow for the Manhattan Institute and is a Senior Strategist for Hudson Bay Capital Management LP. Miran responded to the announcement shortly after Trump’s statement, saying he was honored to be picked for the position.
Google Scholar lists as peer reviewed publications:
Clemens, Jeffrey, and Stephen Miran. “Fiscal policy multipliers on subnational government spending.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 2 (2012): 46-68.
There may be other peer reviewed publications, but the ones I find are in the Manhattan Institute’s in-house journal. Bio here.
He and Nouriel Roubini argued that the Biden administration was manipulating debt management to keep interest rates low, in this piece.
update:
Link to Miran-Roubini paper.
Last publication in City Journal, here.
Head of NEC will be Kevin Hassett.
Basically, Miran is an inflation hawk forever bemoaning fiscal easing under the Biden administration. Fasten your seat belts because you can expect significant whiplash when Miran joins the Trump administration and slams his ideological gear shift into reverse.
Stephen Miran: “At the end of the day, government has to raise revenue via taxation. Higher tax rates are much more dangerous than lower tax rates.
Taking effective tariff rates from 2% to 20% seems way better than taking maringal [sic] income tax rates from 30% even higher.”
In other words, better that everyone else be taxed rather than high income one-percenters.
By the way, as a Harvard trained economist, can we assume he has done the math on the amount of revenue he thinks he can raise with a 20% tariff on imports, even before considering substitutions? Has he done the math on the tax increase the tariff would represent on the median household? Or can we assume he will just lie about it?
And of course there wouldn’t be across the board 20% tariffs. Tariffs are ripe for Trump’s grifting and corruption in granting exemptions.