Douglas Irwin
Douglas Irwin is the 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 the president-elect of the Economic History Association (2022-23).
He is the author of Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, 5th ed. 2020), 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 numerous articles on trade policy and economic history in books and professional journals.
He is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked on trade policy issues while on President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers and later worked in the International Finance Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Before joining Dartmouth, Irwin taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.