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 previously
• The sophisticated and humane moral philosophy of the protectionists
• Why 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 share
• What the response has been from other economic historians in the field

And much more

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