Peter Morici

Peter George Morici, Jr. (born December 9, 1948) is an American macroeconomist and Professor of International Business at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of SUNY Albany in New York State where he received his Ph.D in Economics in 1974.

Career
From 1974 to 1976, Morici taught at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. In 1976, he joined the Federal Energy Administration. In 1978 he moved to the National Planning Association in Washington where he was elected a Vice President in 1983. He joined the University of Maine as a Professor of Economics in 1988 and was Director of its Canadian-American Center from 1990 to 1993. He also served as chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Morici is the author of 18 books.

Personal Life

Morici is noted for wearing bow ties.

Selected publications

 * Reconciling Trade and the Environment in the World Trade Organization
 * Labor Standards in the Global Trading System
 * Antitrust in the Global Trading System: Reconciling U.S., Japanese and EU Approaches
 * Setting U.S. Goals for WTO Negotiations
 * The Trade Deficit: Where Does It Come from and What Does It Do
 * Free Trade in the Americas: An Architecture for Hemispheric Integration
 * Trade Talks with Mexico: A Time for Realism
 * Making Free Trade Work: The Canada-U.S. Agreement
 * Reassessing American Competitiveness