2026 Kuznets Lecture: Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
This annual event honors Simon Kuznets, the famous Belarusian-American economist who helped establish the Yale Economic Growth Center in 1961.
Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth) will deliver the 35th Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture, "Trade Policy and Exchange Rate Reform: A Look Back at History."
As with recent Kuznets events, the lecture will be followed by a mini-conference featuring research on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, and Economic History.
Register here to attend the lecture virtually.
Douglas Irwin
Douglas Irwin is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He served as president of the Economic History Association (2022-23). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked on trade policy issues while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and later worked in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on international trade, particularly in the areas of U.S. trade policy, economic history, and the impact of trade on economic growth.