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PhD Economics Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Douglas A. Irwin is the John French Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College and the author of seven books. He is an expert on both past and present U.S. trade policy, especially policy during the Great Depression. He is frequently sought by media outlets such as The Economist and Wall Street Journal to provide comment and his opinion on current events. He also writes op-eds and articles about trade for mainstream media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Financial Times. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows (1996) (689)
Learning-by-Doing Spillovers in the Semiconductor Industry (1994) (598)
Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century (2000) (574)
Trade blocs, currency blocs and the reorientation of world trade in the 1930s (1995) (398)
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (1997) (350)
High Tech R&D Subsidies: Estimating the Effects of Sematech (1994) (275)
The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why? (2009) (259)
The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Papers in Honor of Jagdish Bhagwati (1996) (250)
Free Trade under Fire (2002) (222)
Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade (1991) (120)
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: A Quantitative Assessment (1996) (118)
Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization after Smoot-Hawley (1999) (101)
The GATT in Historical Perspective (1995) (98)
Change in U.S. Tariffs: The Role of Import Prices and Commercial Policies (1998) (98)
The Rise of Us Anti-Dumping Activity in Historical Perspective (2005) (89)
New dimensions in regional integration: Multilateral and bilateral trade policies in the world trading system: an historical perspective (1993) (87)
Interpreting the Tariff–Growth Correlation of the Late 19th Century (2002) (87)
Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics (1991) (86)
The Political Economy of Free Trade: Voting in the British General Election of 1906 (1994) (85)
Welfare Effects of British Free Trade: Debate and Evidence from the 1840s (1988) (83)
Labor productivity in the United States and the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century (2006) (82)
The genesis of the GATT (2008) (81)
The United States in a New Global Economy? A Century's Perspective (1996) (77)
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND PEEL'S REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS (1989) (75)
Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (2011) (74)
Industry or Class Cleavages Over Trade Policy? Evidence from the Britishgeneral Election of 1923 (1995) (73)
Long-run trends in world trade and income (2002) (70)
Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1996) (67)
Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (2011) (67)
Lost Exceptionalism? Comparative Income and Productivity in Australia and the UK, 1861-1948 (2007) (66)
Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America (2000) (63)
Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from US Tariffs (2010) (63)
Clashing over Commerce (2017) (62)
Free Trade and Protection in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France Revisited: A Comment on Nye (1993) (56)
The Return of the Reciprocitarians — US Trade Policy Today (1987) (54)
Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of “The Great Tariff Debate of 1888” (1997) (53)
The Gatt&Apos;S Contribution to Economic Recovery in Post-War Western Europe (1994) (51)
Political economy and international economics (1991) (50)
WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS: THE CASE FOR THE GLOBAL MARKET ECONOMY (2004) (50)
Explaining America's Surge in Manufactured Exports, 18801913 (2003) (49)
From Smoot-Hawley to Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Changing the Course of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1930s (1997) (49)
Did France Cause the Great Depression? (2010) (46)
Interpreting the Tariff-Growth Correlation of the Late Nineteenth Century (2002) (45)
The optimal tax on antebellum US cotton exports (2003) (44)
Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry (1994) (43)
Does Trade Reform Promote Economic Growth? A Review of Recent Evidence (2019) (42)
The Nixon shock after forty years: the import surcharge revisited (2012) (41)
THE ANTEBELLUM TARIFF ON COTTON TEXTILES REVISITED (2000) (40)
The Aftermath of Hamilton's “Report on Manufactures” (2003) (38)
The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective (2005) (34)
Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961 (2007) (34)
Trade Blocs, Currency Blocs and the Disintegration of World Trade in the 1930s (1993) (33)
The Impact of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows (2006) (32)
The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective (2004) (32)
The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Reform (1987) (31)
Sematech: purpose and performance. (1996) (31)
Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s (2010) (30)
Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age (2007) (30)
Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy (2017) (30)
Could the United States Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade after the Civil War (2000) (30)
Managed Trade: The Case Against Import Targets (1994) (30)
Gold sterilization and the recession of 1937–19381 (2011) (29)
THE THIRD NOEL BUTLIN LECTURE: AUSTRALIAN EXCEPTIONALISM REVISITED (2007) (27)
Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930 (2014) (26)
Causing problems? The WTO review of causation and injury attribution in US Section 201 cases (2003) (26)
Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization After Smoot‐Hawley* (1999) (25)
How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods? (2000) (24)
Coping with Shocks and Shifts: The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective (2011) (22)
Trade deficit announcements, intervention, and the dollar (1989) (22)
Who Anticipated the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel versus Keynes and Hayek on the Interwar Gold Standard (2014) (19)
Measures Affecting the Cross-Border Supply of Gambling and Betting Services (DS 285) (2008) (19)
The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition (2007) (19)
Free Trade under Fire: Princeton University Press (2015) (19)
The Gatt&Apos;S Starting Point: Tariff Levels Circa 1947 (2015) (17)
Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38 (2011) (16)
New Estimates of the Average Tariff of the United States, 1790–1820 (2003) (16)
Retrospectives: Challenges to Free Trade (1991) (15)
Trade Policy Disaster (2011) (14)
Free Trade under Fire: Fourth Edition (2015) (14)
Strategic Trade Policy and Mercantilist Trade Rivalries (1992) (14)
Antebellum Tariff Politics: Regional Coalitions and Shifting Economic Interests (2008) (14)
Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945 (1997) (14)
Esprit de Currency (2011) (13)
Explaining the Rise in (2004) (13)
The Missing Bretton Woods Debate Over Flexible Exchange Rates (2017) (11)
WHY THE TARIFF-GROWTH CORRELATION CHANGED AFTER 1950 (2001) (11)
The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution (2020) (11)
The Midway and Beyond (2018) (10)
Antebellum Tariff Politics: Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests (2006) (10)
Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century (2004) (10)
The U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Conflict (1996) (9)
Challenges to Free Trade (1991) (9)
Historical Aspects of U.S. Trade Policy (2006) (9)
Adam Smith's (2014) (8)
Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments. By Ronald Rogowski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi, 208. $24.50 (1990) (8)
COMPARATIVE INCOME AND PRODUCTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1861-1948 (2006) (8)
Trade Policy in American Economic History (2018) (8)
The lion's share: Britain's export performance revisited, 1899–1929 (1995) (8)
The two faces of globalization (2000) (8)
What Might a Trump Withdrawal from the World Trade Organization Mean for US Tariffs (2018) (8)
The False Promise of Protectionism (2017) (8)
Do We Need the WTO (1999) (7)
Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel&Apos;S Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard (2011) (7)
Evidence from the Twentieth Century (2001) (7)
The Truth About Trade (2016) (7)
The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A Quantitative Assessment of the Repeal of the Corn Laws (2020) (7)
Explaining the Rise in U.S. Antidumping Activity (2004) (6)
Adam Smith's "Tolerable Administration of Justice" and the Wealth of Nations (2014) (6)
Avoiding 1930s-style Protectionism: Lessons for Today (2009) (6)
Trade Disruptions and America&Apos;S Early Industrialization (2003) (6)
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: INPUT SUPPLIES AND DIRECTED TECHNICAL CHANGE BY W. WALKER HANLON1 (2015) (5)
Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds Over Early U.S. Trade Policy (2009) (5)
Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy (2002) (5)
The Aftermath of Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" (2003) (4)
Optimal Tariffs and Trade Policy Formation: U.S. Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Era (2021) (4)
Changes in U.S. Tariffs: Prices or Policies? (1996) (4)
Do Tariffs Affect the Terms of Trade? Evidence from U.S. Tariff Shocks (2010) (3)
U.S. Trade Policy in Historical Perspective (2019) (3)
Did Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry (2000) (3)
TARIFF INCIDENCE (2019) (3)
The Genesis of the Gatt: The Negotiation of the GATT (2008) (3)
International Economic Policy: Was There a Bush Doctrine? (2008) (3)
The Aftermath of Hamilton's (2004) (3)
Commentary : Shifts in Economic Geography and Their Causes (2007) (3)
TERMS OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN (1991) (3)
Labour productivity in the US and the UK during the 19th century (2004) (3)
Was Britain immiserized during the industrial revolution (1991) (3)
The Future of Free Trade (1997) (3)
Jacob Viner: Lectures in Economics 301 (2013) (3)
Historical Perspectives on U.S. Trade Policy (1998) (2)
Profile Jagdish Bhagwati (1997) (2)
The United States in the Global Economy (2020) (2)
RECENT HISTORY OF GLOBAL INTEGRATION: THE GLOBALIZATION WAVE OF THE 1980s AND 1990s ‡ The Trade Reform Wave of 1985–1995 † (2022) (2)
Factors driving global economic integration : commentary (2000) (2)
Free trade at risk? An historical perspective (1990) (2)
World Commodity Prices: The Role of External Debt and Industrial Country Policies (1990) (2)
How Economic Ideas Led to Taiwan’s Shift To Export Promotion in the 1950s (2021) (1)
Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton Oxford University Press, New York, 2005 (2006) (1)
Comments and Discussion (2008) (1)
Adam Smith's “tolerable administration of justice” and the Wealth of Nations (2020) (1)
Labor Productivity in the Us and the UK During the 19th Century (2004) (1)
Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses (2016) (1)
So Great a Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism. By James R. Fichter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 384. $35.00, hardcover (2011) (1)
Trade in the pre-modern era, 1400-1700 (1996) (1)
Tariff Incidence in America&Apos;S Gilded Age (2006) (1)
Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History. Vol. 1: The Encyclopedia. Vol. 2: Debating the Issues: Selected Primary Documents. Vol. 3. The Texts of the Tariffs (Book) (2004) (1)
2. The Case for Free Trade: Old Theories, New Evidence (2015) (1)
Revenue or Reciprocity (2010) (1)
The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today. Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. xxi, 459. $125.00, hardcover (2014) (1)
The New Protectionism in Industrial Countries: Beyond the Uruguay Round (1994) (1)
Real Product and Productivity of Industries since the Nineteenth Century: A Reply to Bryan Haig (2008) (1)
AVOIDING CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION ON TRANSIT PROJECTS (2003) (0)
First Came Economic Cooperation (2021) (0)
Front Matter (“Table of Contents”, “Acknowledgments”) (2010) (0)
Chapter Eight. MILL AND THE INFANT INDUSTRY ARGUMENT (1996) (0)
5. Relief from Foreign Competition: Antidumping and the Escape Clause (2015) (0)
32. ADAM SMITH AND FREE TRADE (2016) (0)
Economic Foundations of International Law by Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013 (2013) (0)
Joseph R. Cammarosano, John Maynard Keynes: free trader or protectionist? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780739189511 Hbk. £51.95) (2015) (0)
Trade Remedies and Relief from Foreign Competition (2020) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2008) (0)
Shifts in economic geography and their causes : commentary (2006) (0)
Front matter to "Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy" (2017) (0)
THE TARIFF-GROWTH CORRELATION CHANGE AFTER 1950 ? (2003) (0)
The Great Trade Debate (2009) (0)
The case for free trade since David Ricardo (2018) (0)
1. The United States in a New Global Economy (2015) (0)
Developing Countries and Open Markets (2020) (0)
Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy. By Susan A. Aaronson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. xvii, 262. $45.00, cloth; $15.95, paper (1997) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2007) (0)
Chapter 2. Economic Consequences (2011) (0)
More than a decade has passed since the U.S. semiconductor (2016) (0)
3. Protectionism: Economic Costs, Political Benefits? (2015) (0)
4. Trade, Jobs, and Income Distribution (2015) (0)
Commentary : Factors Driving Global Economic Integration (0)
The Genesis of the Gatt: The Creation of the GATT (2008) (0)
THE THIRD NOEL BUTLIN (2007) (0)
Did the New Deal Expand U.S. Trade (2012) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OPTIMAL TARIFFS AND TRADE POLICY FORMATION : U . S . EVIDENCE FROM THE SMOOT (2021) (0)
Trade Under Trump (2018) (0)
Chapter 4. Aftermath and Legacy (2011) (0)
Chapter 1. Domestic Politics (2011) (0)
7 .The World Trading System: The WTO, Trade Disputes, and Regional Agreements (2015) (0)
Chapter 3. Foreign Retaliation (2011) (0)
The Rationales for the GATT (2008) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Globalization fatigue, not globalization backlash (2007) (0)
Press 978-0-521-51561-0-The Genesis of the GATT (2003) (0)
6. Developing Countries and Open Markets (2015) (0)
From hermit kingdom to miracle on the Han: Policy decisions that transformed South Korea into an export powerhouse (2021) (0)
Economic Ideas and Taiwan's Shift to Export Promotion in the 1950s (2023) (0)
2-1-1998 Against the Tide : An Intellectual History of Free Trade , by Douglas A (2019) (0)
Chapter Eleven. THE AUSTRALIAN CASE FOR PROTECTION (1996) (0)
THE RECIPROCITY DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT, 1842–1846 (2002) (0)
The World Bank, the IMF, and the GATT/WTO: Which Institution Most Supported Trade Reform in Developing Economies? (2022) (0)
International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century by Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2001, 242 pp. (2002) (0)
Appendix: The Economists’ Statement against the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
The Significance of the Founding Choices (2010) (0)
Chapter Four. PHYSIOCRACY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY (1996) (0)
Chapter Two. THE ENGLISH MERCANTILIST LITERATURE (1996) (0)
Introduction to "Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy" (2017) (0)
Trade, Jobs, and Wages (2020) (0)
Chapter 3. The Missing Bretton Woods Debate over Flexible Exchange Rates (2019) (0)
Rethinking Trade and Commercial Policy Theories: Development Perspectives (2012) (0)
Annex A: Documents Relating to the Negotiations (2008) (0)
Annex B: Negotiating Committees and Subcommittees (2008) (0)
ADAM SMITH AND FREE TRADE (2016) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Foreword (2010) (0)
Protectionism (2020) (0)
Chapter Seven. TORRENS AND THE TERMS OF TRADE ARGUMENT (1996) (0)
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT. By Thomas W. Zeiler. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 288. $39.95 (1999) (0)
The Significance of the Founding Choices: Editors' Introduction (2010) (0)
Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. (2022) (0)
Andrea Maneschi, Comparative Advantage in International Trade: A Historical Perspective (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998), pp. x, 258, ISBN 1-85898-300-2. (2000) (0)
Introduction [Free Trade under Fire Fourth edition] (2015) (0)
The World Trading System (2020) (0)
Trade Protection in the United States. By Charles K. Rowley, Willem Thorbecke, and Richard E. Wagner. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Edward E. Elgar, 1995. Pp. xiii, 348. $90.00 (1998) (0)
The Case for Free Trade (2020) (0)
Power, protection and free trade: International sources of U.S. commercial strategy, 1887–1939 : David A. Lake, (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1989) pp. xi+242, $29.95. (1990) (0)
American Trade Policy, 1923–1995. By Edward S. Kaplan. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 172. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Pp. x, 176. $55.00 (1997) (0)
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles 1816-1860 : Consolidation (2003) (0)
A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade, and Global Governance by Mike Moore Cambridge University Press, 2003 (2003) (0)
Three-factor general equilibrium models: a dual, geometric approach (1990) (0)
Foreword (2011) (0)

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