Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

by Douglas A. Irwin

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069115032X
• ISBN13: 9780691150321
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"