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Understanding Trump's Trade Policy

15 November 2018, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm

Trump-trade

President Donald Trump has upended the norms of US trade policy and imposed tariffs on friends and foes alike. What is the president trying to achieve? Join us for a keynote lecture with Professor Douglas Irwin.

This event is free.

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All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Global Governance Institute

Location

Archaeology G6 Lecture Theatre
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY

President Donald Trump has upended the norms of US trade policy and imposed tariffs on friends and foes alike. What is the president trying to achieve? Will US trade policy revert to historic norms in the next administration? This talk, from a noted expert on US trade policy, will explore these issues.

About the Speaker

Douglas Irwin

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Douglas Irwin is the 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 (Princeton University Press, fourth edition 2015), Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), Against the Tide:  An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on trade policy in books and professional journals.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and 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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