Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression by Douglas A. Irwin

Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

Douglas A. Irwin

244 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative slow-paced
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The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with--and sometimes blamed for--the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse ...

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