Well, he was very interested, and the people at that time were very interested in building infrastructure, in using protection — tariff protection, sounds familiar — to get industries to move and to develop in the United States after moving from the United Kingdom, which was then the leader, and he was actually quite interested in getting knowhow into the US too. So, Alexander Hamilton is regarded — with a very famous German economist, Friedrich List — as a sort of one of the intellectual fathers of the idea of infant industry protection.

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