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Ideas of Globalisation: Hoover and Smoot-Hawley (and Trump!)
Manage episode 480491219 series 3469425
David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs back and helped bring down both the Republican Party and the global economy. Why didn’t Hoover stop it? What did the fiasco reveal about the limits of presidential power back then? And what does it suggest about the limits of presidential power today?
Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
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201 episodes
Manage episode 480491219 series 3469425
David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs back and helped bring down both the Republican Party and the global economy. Why didn’t Hoover stop it? What did the fiasco reveal about the limits of presidential power back then? And what does it suggest about the limits of presidential power today?
Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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