Books by Douglas A. Irwin

Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

Princeton University Press, 2011

Introduction

1. Domestic Politics

2. Economic Consequences

3. Foreign Reaction

4. Aftermath and Legacy

Appendix: The Economists’ Petition against the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

The Genesis of the GATT (co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes)

Cambridge University Press, 2008.

It can be purchased from Amazon.com; click here for more details.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Creation of the GATT

Chapter 2: The Negotiation of the GATT

Chapter 3: The Rationales for the GATT

Conclusion

Documents annex

My book work-in-progress:

The Battle over Protection: A History of U.S. Trade Policy

Introduction

1. The Struggle for Independence, 1763-1789

2. Trade Policy for New Nation, 1789-1816

3. Sectional Conflict and Compromise, 1816-1860

4. Protectionism Entrenched, 1860-1897

5. The Failure of Tariff Reform, 1897-1921

6. Fordney-McCumber, Hawley-Smoot, and the Great Depression, 1921-1932

7. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Program, 1932-1945

8. Creating a Multilateral Trading System, 1945-1967

9. Strategic Retreat: The Backlash against Import Competition, 1967-1992

10. The New Global Economy, 1992-2009

Conclusion: The End of Trade Policy?

Acknowledgments

Data Appendix

Index

• Free Trade Under Fire, third edition (2009)  

This book provides a general overview of trade policy issues.  You can order from Amazon.com by clicking here or check out Princeton's web site on the book.

Introduction
1        The United States in a New Global Economy?
2        The Case for Free Trade: Old Theories, New Evidence
3        Protectionism: Economic Costs, Political Benefits?
4        Trade, Jobs, and Displaced Workers
5        Relief from Foreign Competition: Antidumping and the Escape Clause
6        Developing Countries and Open Markets
7        The World Trading System: The WTO and New Battlegrounds
Conclusion

• Against the Tide:  An Intellectual History of Free Trade.

This was published by Princeton University Press in 1996.  Selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1996.  A paperback edition is available from Amazon.com -- click here to check it out.  Paul Krugman reviewed the book for the Journal of Economic Literature -- click here to see his review.  For other reviewer comments, click here

• Managed Trade:  The Case Against Import Targets

            Published by the AEI Press in 1994.  This volume critically examines U.S. attempts to negotiate minimum import targets with Japan.  I argue that such import targets are anticompetitive and discriminatory and will not advance the cause of open trade.  Import targets are a form of managed trade to be avoided.  Here is a summary of the book.

• The Political Economy of Trade Policy:  Essays in Honor of Jagdish Bhagwati

        A festschrift edited along with Robert Feenstra and Gene Grossman, published by MIT Press in 1996.

• Jacob Viner, Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics

An edited collection of essays by one of the great historians of economic thought, published by Princeton University Press in 1991.  It is now out of print.