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James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
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The Republicans’ Protectionist Pedigree. Jeffrey Frankel, June 13, 2018, Opinion, "In recent decades, US Republicans have tended to embrace free trade more willingly than US Democrats. But, during most of its first century, the Republican Party was protectionist in both word and deed, and it has elected the four most aggressively protectionist presidents of the last 50 years." Link