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Chile is considered one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, while Venezuela's
economy is in shambles. Why is this the case?

Please join LAPS and Prof. Irwin, from the Economics Department,
for our dinner discussion this Tuesday at 7 PM
in Rocky's Class of 1930 Room

Professor Irwin's presentation will be followed by a discussion and Q&A.

About the Speaker:
Douglas Irwin is the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences in the
Department of Economics at Dartmouth College.  He is author of Trade Policy Disaster:
 Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the
Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011), Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University
Press, third edition 2009), 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.

Hope to see you there!

Best,
LAPS.