Douglas Irwin is John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Free Trade under Fire (fourth edition, Princeton University Press, 2015), Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on the history of U.S. trade policy in professional journals. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Trade theory and trade policy: The work of Max Corden, 1927-2023
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- Frontiers of economic research 
- International trade
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Explaining the trade reform wave of 1985–1995

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Explaining the trade reform wave of 1985–1995
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- Development 
- International trade 
- Exchange Rates

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Trade, development and political economy: The life and work of Ronald Findlay, 1935-2021
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- Economic history 
- International trade

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The economic consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A quantitative assessment of the repeal of the Corn Laws
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- Economic history 
- International trade