Economists Ignore Economic Data in Views on Trade Policy

Ben Casselman's NYT piece on economist Tim Kane's run for a congressional seat in Ohio called my attention to an economists' poll that I had missed. The poll posed the following question to a group of elite economists:

"An important reason why many workers in Michigan and Ohio have lost jobs in recent years is because US presidential administrations over the past 30 years have not been tough enough in trade negotiations."

Of the whole group, 64 percent either strongly disagreed or disagreed...