Ian Hamish Fletcher

Ian H. Fletcher (1968-) is an Adjunct Fellow of the US Business and Industry Council, a Washington think-tank. Previously, he was an independent economist serving hedge funds. Prior to that, he was employed at a number of Wall Street firms, including JPMorganChase, Citibank, Paine Webber, and HSBC. He also worked as a Washington lobbyist as Vice-President for Government Relations of the American Engineering Association.

He has been published on free trade in a number of magazines, including Dollars and Sense, American Economic Alert, Chronicles, The American Conservative, Democracy Means You, and the Post-Autistic Economics Review, the world’s leading journal of dissident economics. One of his articles was anthologized in the 2007 book Real World Economics (Anthem Press). He maintains a website at ianfletcher.org.

Fletcher was educated at Columbia and the University of Chicago. He is married with one child and lives in San Francisco. He is a board member of the civic group San Francisco Beautiful.

Papers on Economics

  • "A Neoclassical Hole in Neoclassical Free Trade" 1
  • "What Industries Does Multiple-Equilibrium Trade Theory Recommend?" 2
  • "Trading Up - An Introduction to New Trade Theory" 3
  • "Can We Trust Economists on Free Trade?" 4
  • "The Shaky Case for Free Trade" 5
  • "The Coming End of the Free Trade Coalition (The American Conservative)" 6
  • "The Natural Strategic Tariff" 7
  • "The Global Economy Bubble Equilibrium" 8
  • "Fatal Flaws in the Theory of Comparative Advantage" 9
  • "Will Computers Really Decentralize the Economy?" 10