Douglas Irwin

Affiliation: Dartmouth College

Douglas Irwin is the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College.

He is author of Free Trade under Fire (third edition, Princeton University Press, 2009), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on the history of U.S. trade policy in professional journals.

He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the editor of the World Trade Review. He has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Douglas Irwin's Latest Articles | 2

What Caused the Recession of 1937-38?

Sep 11, 2011| 

The swift policy response to the recent financial crisis helped the world economy avoid a replay of the Great Depression of 1929-32. But can we avoid a replay of... Read »

Did France Cause the Great Depression?

Sep 20, 2010| 

A large body of research has linked the gold standard to the severity of the Great Depression. This column argues that while economic historians have focused on... Read »

The Protectionist Temptation: Lessons from the Great Depression

Mar 17, 2009| 

What do we know about the spread of protectionism during the Great Depression and what are the implications for today’s crisis? This column says the lesson is... Read »

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