Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of the weekly podcast, EconTalk; author of The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism; Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution; former Professor of Economics at George Mason University
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