ABSTRACT
The history of United States economic foreign policy has been distinguished by scholarly neglect for most of the twentieth century. With the exception of a brief flurry of interest in tariffs, stimulated in the 1930s by the experience of the Great Depression and a newfound belief in the need for freer trade, diplomatic historians have overwhelmingly concentrated their efforts on the study of political, strategic, and even social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of America’s relations with the world.
