Douglas A. Irwin

Robert E. Maxwell ’23 Professor of Arts and Sciences                       Phone:  (603) 646-2942
Department of Economics                                                                  Fax: (603) 646-2122
Dartmouth College                                                                             e-mail:  douglas.irwin@dartmouth.edu
Hanover, NH 03755-3514

Research Interests:  My research focuses on U.S. trade policy, past and present. 

 

NEW:

            I will be giving the Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School of Economics in September 2010.

            The lectures will be written up and published as Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s by MIT Press sometime in 2011.

 

·         New Paper:  Did France Cause the Great Depression?  (July 2010 version).

 

·         New Book:  Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression – to be published by Princeton University Press early in 2011.  See a preview in my Wall Street Journal op-ed on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Smoot-Hawley tariff.

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·         New Edited Book:  with Richard Sylla – Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s, based on an NBER conference.  To be published in the fall of 2010 by the University of Chicago Press.

 

·         “The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression:  Who Succumbed and Why?”  (co-authored with Barry Eichengreen). 

 Hint:  the gold standard mattered a lot.

·         New York Times op-ed on the Buy America provision:  “If We Buy American, No one Else Will.”  January 31, 2009.

 

·         Other thoughts on trade policy and the financial crisis, at VoxEU, click here.

·         My co-authored book on The Genesis of the GATT was published by Cambridge University Press in June 2008.  A paperback edition is now available from Amazon.com here.

·         The year 2007 marked the 60th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; see my WSJ op-ed here.

·         Older Opinion Pieces:  Two Wall Street Journal op-eds, one on outsourcing and one on trade worriers.


The third edition of Free Trade under Fire was published by Princeton University Press in August 2009.  To order from Amazon.com, click here .  Click on Books above to see the table of contents.


Last Update: July 30, 2010.