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The Hoover Institution hosts "Will Protection Make America Great? Trump and US Trade Policy with Doug Irwin" on Monday, May 21, 2018 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm PST.

Doug Irwin is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He will also be discussing his most recent publication, titled Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

No RSVP required.

 


ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Douglas Irwin is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.  He is author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, fourth edition 2015), Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), Against the Tide:  An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on trade policy in books and professional journals.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and 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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