"The simple fact is that highly skilled foreign-born workers make enormous contributions to our economy [...] The US will find it far more difficult to maintain its competitive edge over the next 50 years if it excludes those who are able and willing to help us compete. Other nations are benefiting from our misguided policies."
Bill Gates,
Testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, US House of Representatives,
March 12, 2008.
Advisor
Center for Trade Policy Studies
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Douglas Irwin is the Robert E. Maxwell '23 Professor of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College as well as the editor of World Trade Review. Mr. Irwin is a member of the American Economic Association, Economic History Association and Cliometrics Society. He has taught at the University of Chicago and MIT, in addition to serving on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Professor Irwin has published many books, his latest being a second edition of Free Trade Under Fire in 2005 (Princeton), and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton, 1996) which has been translated into both Japanese and Indonesian. In addition, he has written for a number of scholarly journals including the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic History, and The Journal of Political Economy. He has also published articles in the Wall Street Journal and Journal of Commerce. Professor Irwin received his B.A. in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of New Hampshire. He received his Ph.D. in Economics with Distinction from Columbia University. |
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