Examining American Exceptionalism

The Hoover Institution’s PolicyEd initiative today announced the launch of Examining America’s Exceptional Economy, a four-part video series featuring Edward Lazear, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow. Based on Lazear’s essay in American Exceptionalism in a New Era, published by the Hoover Institution Press, theseries explores what has made America's economy successful, what sets it apart from other nations, and what needs to be done to continue its preeminence in the global economy. 

Lazear shows that America and its people have prospered by focusing on economic freedom, industriousness, low taxes, light regulation, free trade, and openness to immigration.

Lazear argues that to sustain its economic exceptionalism, America will require course corrections to recent policy deviations. While he cites many reasons to remain optimistic about the future, Lazear contends that unless America returns to the policies and values that made it exceptional, it will lose more than the right to proclaim itself the land of opportunity.

Click here to view each episode. 

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