Scott Nelson: The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions

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colorized illustration of the Tompkins Square Park riot in New York City in 1874, fromthe article

Scott Nelson has an essay in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign Policy. You can read it on the website https://foreignpolicy.com/.

The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions, What the 19th century teaches us about what happens next.

Essay by Scott Reynolds Nelson. 

Nelson is a history professor at the University of Georgia and the author of A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters and other books.

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Scott Reynolds Nelson

Professor, Georgia Athletic Association Professor
srnelson@uga.edu

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