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Douglas A. Irwin is the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the
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in the
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Department at
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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
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and
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to provide comment and his opinion on current events. He also writes op-eds and articles about trade for mainstream media outlets like ''
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'', and ''
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''. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the
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. Prior to his appointment to as professor at Dartmouth, Irwin was an associate professor of business economics at the
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, an economist for the
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, and an economist for the Council of Economic Advisers Executive Office of the president.


Education

Irwin received his Ph.D. in economics with distinction from
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in 1988. He also received a B.A. in
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, magna cum laude from the
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. He has served on the editorial board of the ''
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'', the World Trade Review, the ''Journal of International Economics'', and ''
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''.


Research

At Dartmouth, he is the director of the Political Economy Project. His published research is widely cited, and covers both modern trade policy and the history of the trading system. His books include: * ''Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ; * ''Free Trade Under Fire'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. ; * ''Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s'', Cambridge, MA: MIP Press, 2012. ; * ''Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. ; * ''Founding choices: American economic policy in the 1790s'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ; * ''The Genesis of the GATT'', Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ; * ''Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ;


Honors

Irwin has received numerous grants and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Principal Investigator fellowship and a
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grant. He received the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's F.A. Hayek Book prize as well as the Economic History Association's Alice Hanson Jones prize for his 2017 book, ''Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy.''


Personal

Irwin is married to Marjorie Rose, a Dartmouth economics professor and former staff economist at the
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and Council of Economics Advisors.


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