Welcome to my website. I launced a website in the early 2000’s to share my academic work and to show off my digital photography. Following the demise of gandini.unm.edu, which I had hosted for over 10 years, I launched this website in 2013. That was nearly ten years ago and during that time it has, unfortunately, languished more than I would like.
I post occasionally to a blog called UnPhiltered. There are my personal pages allowing me to share a little of myself. You can read about my obsession with my car, bicycles, photography, woodwork and a few other things. My photography site has been around the web the longest and doesn’t get the attention from me it deserves I’m afraid.
I retired from academic life in 2023. After 34 years it seemed like a good time to leave, especially since the woke culture had completely taken over the University and it no longer felt like the institution I had joined all those years ago. It was no longer my University, so it was no longer a place I felt happy at.
As an archive of sorts, you’ll find an academic section with details on my research and the classes I have taught. I had a long administrative career, as Chair of the Economics Department, Director of the BA/MD program with the Medical School, Associate Dean for Research, Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. There’s also a section about the consulting and expert witness services I used to offer to the legal profession. I retired from forensic economics in 2023 also.
I hope you find something of interest here. If you do, please find me on Facebook (where you can find me as drPhilGandini or my group Spin In Style or on Instagram as @spininstyle.) Thanks for visiting, and cheers!
Phil Ganderton
(Throughout the website you can click on most photos to see a larger image)

Tariffs and trade

Posted on April 8, 2025 by philip ganderton

Making sense of the current situation

I generally don’t post about politics, and really this is not about politics, although it is the position of the current Trump administration on tariffs that has spurred me to write something here. After a very long career as an Economics Professor, and my current status as a Professor Emeritus if I choose to use that honorific, I remain fundamentally interested in economics and helping others understand the world through economics.

While discussing the current “trade war” instigated by the massive universal tariffs placed on goods imported into the United States in the early months of the Trump 47 administration, I have been drawn into an investigation of what Stephen Miran has called the Mar-a-Lago Accord, a three-element plan to bring manufacturing back the US, to eliminate the US trade imbalance, and to reduce the impact of the US Federal debt. To provide a basis for understanding some of this, the article below from the American Institute for Economic Research is highly recommended. It is clearly written (with only a few errors) and quite comprehensive.

Understanding Trade Balances and What to Do About Them

Philip Ganderton

Academic, consultant, father, driver, rider, photographer, woodworker

Philip Ganderton

Recent Posts

Tariffs and trade

Ephemera