Douglas A. Irwin
Economic historian and professor
Douglas A. Irwin is an economic historian and Dartmouth College professor who has written seven books on US trade policy.
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American Born in East Lansing, United States
About Douglas A. Irwin
Douglas A. Irwin holds the John French professorship in economics at Dartmouth College. He is also a research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the Peterson Institute for International Economics counts him as a nonresident senior fellow. Earlier in his career, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve and for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. His work covers past and present US trade policy, with particular attention to the Great Depression era. He has written articles on trade for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Financial Times. His book Clashing over Commerce is in our catalog.