
Peddling Protectionism
"A vivid, anecdotal, judicious telling of timeless story: what happens when cocksure politicians fall into the grip of a really bad economic idea."—Financial Times
An authoritative history of the disastrous U.S. tariffs that worsened the Great Depression around the world
The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America''s most infam...
"A vivid, anecdotal, judicious telling of timeless story: what happens when cocksure politicians fall into the grip of a really bad economic idea."—Financial Times
An authoritative history of the disastrous U.S. tariffs that worsened the Great Depression around the world
The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America''s most infam...