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Claude Barfield
Bio Claude E. Barfield is a Resident Scholar and Director of Trade and Science and Technology Studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. His areas of research and expertise include international trade, science and technology policy, and U.S. competitiveness. His most recent publications include, Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization, and The New World of Services: Implications for the United States (co-author Cordula Thum). In 1999, he was the co-author (with Mark Groombridge) of Tiger By the Tail: China and the WTO. In addition, he has recently directed the publication of three major multiauthored studies by the institute: Science for the 21st Century: The Bush Report Revisited (1997); The Future of Biomedical Research (1997); and The United States and East Asia: Trade and Investment for the Next Decade (1997). In 1996 he edited International Trade in Financial Services: Harmonization vs. Competition Among National Regulatory Systems (1996) and served as coeditor (with Bruce Smith of the Brookings Institution) of Technology, R&D, and the Economy (1996). In recent years, he has authored papers and studies entitled Parallel Trade in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Implications for Innovation, Consumer Welfare and Health Policy (with Mark Groombridge: 1999); Strengthening TRIPS: The Economic Case for Restricting Parallel Imports (with Mark Groombridge: 1997); “Regulatory Reform and Trade Liberalization” in Geza Feketekuty (ed.), New Trade Strategies for the United States (1997); The Summit of the Americas: Economic Promise and Peril (a study of the growing protectionist use of antidumping laws: 1995); “Flat Panel Displays: A Second Look” in Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1994-1995; and “U.S.-China Trade and Investment in the 1990s” in Beyond MFN: Trade with China and American Interests (eds. James Lilley and Wendell Willkie, AEI, 1994). In addition, from 1988 to 1992, he directed the AEI project entitled “The United States and Europe in the 1990s” which produced four volumes: Political and Social Change: The U.S. Faces a United Europe; Capital Markets and Trade: the U.S. Faces a United Europe; Industry, Services and Agriculture in the 1990s: the U.S. Faces a United Europe; and Defense and Security: the U.S. Faces a United Europe. Dr. Barfield has testified often before congressional committees and has appeared on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, as well as on NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Nightly Business Report. Prior to coming to AEI, Dr. Barfield taught at Yale University and the University of Munich, served in the Ford Administration, and was the co-staff director of President Carter’s Commission for a National Agenda for the 80s. He received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
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