Please join LAPS and Prof. Irwin, from the Economics Department,

for our dinner discussion Today at 7 PM

in Rocky's Class of 1930 Room

(First Floor corner, in front of Carson)

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.