Douglas A. Irwin
Co-Director of Political Economy Project
John French Professor in Economics
Douglas Irwin is John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which The Economist and Foreign Affairs selected as one of their Best Books of the Year. He is president-elect of the Economic History Association (2022-23).
Contact
Department(s)
Economics
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
- B.A. University of New Hampshire (1984)
- Ph.D. Columbia University (1988)
Selected Publications
"Nixon and the 1971 import surcharge to achieve an appreciation of foreign currencies" ( January 2013)
"Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s" (MIT Press, 2012)
"Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression" (Princeton University Press, 2011)
"Free Trade Under Fire , 3rd ed." (Princeton University Press, 2009)
Works In Progress
Trade Policy Revolution, book in progress, about trade reform in developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s