Douglas Irwin is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research . He is author of Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, 2002), Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), Managed Trade: The Case Against Import Targets (AEI Press, 1994), and many articles on trade policy in books and professional journals. He is a recent recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Chicago ’s Graduate School of Business and has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1986-87) and as an economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington.
The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the...
