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This economist, who wrote “The Folly of Free Trade” article in the 1986 Harvard Business Review, wrote that free trade is not always good and scoffed at the religious-like belief that it is.

He is the only American thinker who wrote that clearly. Unfortunately, his writing was long-winded, which probably turned away readers. Although general opinion ignored his view, he was totally right, and we now sit with the problem of that ignorance.

I feel he deserves a statue, and I fervently hope the White House will one day have one erected for him, because, for a nation, it is…

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