Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.

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Clyde Prestowitz (born 1941) is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. He formerly served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. [1] He is a labor economist. [2] Prestowitz has written for Foreign Affairs. [3]

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Early life and education

Prestowitz was born to a family with a conservative Republican and evangelical Christian background [4] [5] and earned a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East–West Center of the University of Hawaii; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. [5] [6]

2020 US Presidential Campaign

In 2020, Prestowitz, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him." [7]

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  1. "About Us". www.econstrat.org. Archived from the original on 2008-11-27.
  2. "Bio". Time . 27 January 2012.
  3. "Search". Foreign Affairs.
  4. "Clyde Prestowitz, Author of the Betrayal of American Prosperity". Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  5. 1 2 "Clyde Prestowitz on the meaning of neoconservatism". Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  6. "MIT World Speakers: Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 2011-09-13. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
  7. "Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden". Defending Democracy Together. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  8. "Our Incoherent China Policy". 21 September 2015.
  9. Clyde Prestowitz; John Prout (30 May 2012). "Could Germany save eurozone by leaving it?". CNN.
  10. The South Korean Firehose by Clyde Prestowitz Archived 2005-08-15 at the Wayback Machine

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