Scott French

Scott French is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the UNSW Business School. He received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.

His research focuses on international trade, including modelling how countries’ patterns of specialization of production interact with international trade barriers to determine countries’ level of income and overall economic well-being.

1 June 2025
What are tariffs, anyway?

Thanks to the decisive victory of US President-elect Donald Trump, we’re now set to hear a whole lot more of his favourite word. But how do they actually work?

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