Douglas A. Irwin

John French Professor in Economics

My research focuses primarily on U.S. trade policy, past and present, as well as the Great Depression. My book Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s examines both the impact of protectionist trade policies enacted 80 years ago and what we can learn from the mistakes of that era. The book is based on the Ohlin Lectures I gave at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2010.

Contact

646-2942
309 Silsby
HB 6106

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)

Works In Progress

  • trade and macroeconomic policy during the Great Depression

  • The history of U.S. trade policy