Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

by Douglas A. Irwin

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A history of America's most infamous tariff

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 of world trade, and the global spread of protectionism in the 1930s. Even today, the ghosts of congressmen Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley haunt anyone...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691178062

ISBN13:9780691178066

Release Date:October 2017

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Business Business & Investing Economic Policy History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Trades & Tariffs

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