Douglas A. Irwin

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Douglas A. Irwin (* 1962 ) is an American economist .

Life

Irwin teaches as Professor of Arts and Sciences in the economics department of Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . He is the author, co-author and editor of books and other academic articles on questions of economic history , trade policy , especially the USA from the colonial era to the present day, as well as free trade .

Irwin has served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and served on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System .

Publications (selection)

  • Peddling Protection: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-15032-1 .
  • Free trade under fire. 3. Edition. Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-14315-6 .
  • with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes: The Genesis of the GATT . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008.
  • Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy. American Enterprise Institute, 1996, ISBN 0-8447-7079-5 .
  • Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1996, ISBN 0-691-01138-9 .
  • together with Jagdish Bhagwati : Political Economy and International Economics. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996, ISBN 0-262-52218-7 .
  • as editors with Robert C. Feenstra and Gene M. Grossman : The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Papers in Honor of Jagdish Bhagwati. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996, ISBN 0-262-06186-4 .
  • Trade in the Pre-Modern Era, 1400-1700 . E. Elgar, Brookfield, Vermont, USA 1996, ISBN 1-85278-989-1 .
  • Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy. The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade. In: The Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 99 No 6, December, 1991, pp. 1296-1314 (PDF; 2.0 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Protectionism in Crisis. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 4, 2011, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Irwin, Douglas A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962