Dr Mathew A Frith - "America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition: The Economics That Forged A Nation"

My guest today is Dr Mathew A Frith who is a lecturer at the University of New England where he specialises in the history of economic thought.Today we discuss:His new book “America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition: The Economics That Forged a Nation” and how it builds on his award-winning PhD thesis that we discussed previouslyThe sophisticated and humane moral philosophy of the protectionistsWhy Abraham Lincoln called the work they were doing the “beautiful science”?We speculate how a debate between Milton Friedman and Alexander Hamilton would have gone and what common ground they might shareWhat the response has been from other economic historians in the fieldAnd much morehttps://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/business/mathew-frithhttps://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1839999268https://www.mathewfrith.com/book