As part of the Hayek Lecture Series, Douglas A. Irwin (Dartmouth College) and Lawrence H. White (George Mason University) will deliver on Monday, April 9, a joint lecture titled "The Causes of the Great Depression: Two Contemporary Views."
The lecture will be at 1:00 p.m. in Room 0012 of the Westbrook Building at Duke University. Westbrook is attached to the Divinity School and is next to the Duke Chapel.
Professor Irwin, an expert on U.S. trade policy, is the author of Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011).
Professor White has a book forthcoming from Cambridge University Press titled The Clash of Economic Ideas, which surveys the major economic policy debates of the last hundred years.
The Hayek Lecture Series is sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy, the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and the program in American Values and Institutions at Duke University. The series is supported by a grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation.