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"Through a combination of text, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati ... looks at the forces for and against protection."--Jacket.

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The contribution of the American School of Political Economy (1848 to 1914) to America's wildly successful industrial development has disappeared from today's h