[Inline image OWAPstImg663569] Are you a Government major? Are you an Economics major? Are you interested in global issues? Do you want to further optimize your Dartmouth education? Have you ever felt inept challenging a view different from your own? Join the Alexander Hamilton Society Dartmouth College Chapter's 18F debate: The Future of US Trade Policy Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 4:30PM- 5:45PM Rockefeller Center 002 Featuring: Dr. Phil Levy from the Alexander Hamilton Society and Dartmouth Professors Doug Irwin and Robert Staiger Three experts, three views, one room... an event you surely won't want to miss! Phil Levy Chicago Council on Global Affairs Phil Levy is senior fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Previously he was associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He was formerly a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. [Inline image OWAPstImg604650] Douglas Irwin John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Douglas Irwin 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. [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/images/Douglas.Irwin_.jpg] Robert W. Staiger Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Economics, at Dartmouth College Robert W. Staiger is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on international trade policy rules and institutions, with particular emphasis on the economics of the GATT/WTO. His research has been published in numerous academic journals, and in a book, The Economics of the World Trading System, co-authored with Kyle Bagwell and published by The MIT Press (2002). Staiger recently served as Editor, with Kyle Bagwell, of The Handbook of Commercial Policy, published by Elsevier in December 2016. Staiger received his A.B. from Williams College in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Michigan in 1985. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford from 1985 through 1991 and promoted to tenure in 1991. In 1993 Staiger joined the Economics Department at Wisconsin, where he remained until his return to Stanford in 2006. In 2011 Staiger rejoined the Economics Department at Wisconsin, before joining the Economics Department at Dartmouth in the Fall of 2014. Staiger was a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution (1988-89), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1990-92), a Senior Staff Economist at CEA (1991-92) and a Fellow at CASBS at Stanford (1996-97). He was a Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics from 1995 to 2010 and served as Editor (with Charles Engel) from 2010 through 2017; he was a Reporter for the American Law Institute in its study of Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization (2002-12); and he has served on the selection panel for the WTO’s Award for Young Economists since 2009. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 2008). In the Fall of 2016 Staiger gave the Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School of Economics, and in the Spring of 2018 he gave the Graham Lecture at Princeton University. [Inline image OWAPstImg319642]