Douglas Irwin
@douglasirwin.bsky.social
Trade/economic history @Dartmouth College @Peterson Institute for International Economics Website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dirwin/
Reposted by Douglas Irwin
On 2, check out Clashing over Commerce by @douglasirwin.bsky.social at p 574, quoting administration adviser Bill Niskanen: The Reagan administration's strategy was "to build a five-foot trade wall in order to deter a ten-foot wall [that would have been] established by Congress."
October 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
On 2, check out Clashing over Commerce by @douglasirwin.bsky.social at p 574, quoting administration adviser Bill Niskanen: The Reagan administration's strategy was "to build a five-foot trade wall in order to deter a ten-foot wall [that would have been] established by Congress."
Yes, he was a free trader but did a strategic retreat in his first term under the pressure of the recession and Congress
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Opinion | Ronald Reagan Was No Protectionist
He agreed to cap Japanese auto imports in 1981 but hated the deal and did it only as a compromise.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Yes, he was a free trader but did a strategic retreat in his first term under the pressure of the recession and Congress
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Another excellent episode . . . .where can I read more about Labour politics in the 1970s and 1980s, and Militant in particular? Any recommendations? Thank you!
September 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Another excellent episode . . . .where can I read more about Labour politics in the 1970s and 1980s, and Militant in particular? Any recommendations? Thank you!
This one seems pretty important . . . goes after a slew of them
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The standard errors of persistence
Many studies of historical persistence find that modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However they…
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June 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This one seems pretty important . . . goes after a slew of them
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