Fixed Rates and Protectionism

Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal, 26th October 2009

Paul Krugman refers to Barry Eichengreen's and Doug Irwin's new paper challenging the conventional wisdom about protectionism in the 1930s, and reflects on the implications from "in the middle of a contemporary example" in Quito, Ecuador.

Krugman refers to a recent Global Trade Alert Report to support his analysis.

READ KRUGMAN'S QUITO BLOG HERE.

Website: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/fixed-rates-and-protectionism-2009-e...