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Ian Fletcher is on the advisory board of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a 2.7-million-member organization dedicated to fixing America's trade and industrial policies and comprising representatives from business, agriculture, and labor. He is the author of Free Trade Doesn’t Work, coauthor of The Conservative Case against Free Trade, and coauthor of Industrial Policy for the United States. He has been senior economist at the Coalition, a research fellow at the US Business and Industry Council, an economist in private practice, and an IT consultant. He was educated at Columbia and Chicago and lives in San Francisco. ...more

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Average rating: 4.27 · 180 ratings · 43 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Free Trade Doesn't Work by Ian Fletcher (Goodreads Author), Edward N. Luttwak (Foreword) 4.19 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau (Goodreads Author), Ian Fletcher (Goodreads Author) 4.66 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conservative Case Against Free Trade by William Shearer, Ian Fletcher (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ian Fletcher rated a book liked it The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Has some valid points, but kind of emotionally overheated and drags into the picture a lot of irrelevant issues. Klein is also not that sophisticated as an actual economist.
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Has some valid points, but kind of emotionally overheated and drags into the picture a lot of irrelevant issues. Klein is also not that sophisticated as an actual economist.
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Ian Fletcher finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ian Fletcher is now following Marc Fasteau Author of Industrial Policy for the United States: Winnin...
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Ian Fletcher rated a book it was amazing Defeating Slavery: Hamilton's American System Showed the Way by Nancy B Spannaus	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
As America returns to a more nationalist economic policy with Donald Trump (and even many of the things Joe Biden did, such as the tariff on Chinese electric cars), it behooves Americans to understand where this is all going. Contrary to the globalis ...more
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Ian Fletcher rated a book it was amazing Hamilton versus Wall Street: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics by Nancy Bradeen Spannaus (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
As America returns to a more nationalist economic policy with Donald Trump (and even many of the things Joe Biden did, such as the tariff on Chinese electric cars), it behooves Americans to understand where this is all going. Contrary to the globalis ...more
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Ian Fletcher rated a book liked it The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy by Arkebe Oqubay	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is basically the reigning academic textbook on industrial policy, but it's an anthology, not a proper textbook or a non-textbook with a unified argument. As a result, while it contains some decent chapters, it's rather scattershot and lacks clea ...more
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Ian Fletcher rated a book it was amazing The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ian Fletcher rated a book it was amazing Minding America's Business by Ira C. Magaziner	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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