Yeah, Navarro was totally unqualified.
"Navarro attended
Tufts University on an academic scholarship,
[26] graduating in 1972 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
[4] He then spent three years in the
U.S. Peace Corps, serving in
Thailand.
[10][29] He earned a
Master of Public Administration from
Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1979, and a
PhD in
Economics from Harvard under the supervision of
Richard E. Caves in 1986.
[29]"
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From 1981 through 1985, he was a research associate at
Harvard's Energy and Environmental Policy Center. From 1985 through 1988, he taught at the
University of California, San Diego and the
University of San Diego.
[30][29] In 1989 he moved to the
University of California, Irvine as a professor of economics and public policy. He continued on the UC Irvine faculty for more than 20 years and is now a
professor emeritus.
[31] He has worked on energy issues and the relationship between the United States and
Asia.
[32] He has received multiple teaching awards for
MBA courses he has taught.
[33]
As a doctoral student in 1984, Navarro wrote a book entitled
The Policy Game: How Special Interests and Ideologues are Stealing America, which claimed that special interest groups had led the United States to "a point in its history where it cannot grow and prosper." In the book, he also called for greater worker's compensation to help those who had lost jobs to trade and foreign competition. His doctoral dissertation on why corporations donate to charity is one of his most cited works. He has also done research in the topic of
wind energy with Frank Harris, a former student of his.
[34]
Navarro has written over a dozen books on various topics in economics and specializing in issues of balance of trade. He has published peer-reviewed economics research on energy policy, charity, deregulation and the economics of trash collection."
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