How Will the United States Compete?
What Competitiveness Means to American Business
Cosponsored with the National Chamber Foundation
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006
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Political debate in the United States is full of calls to enhance national competitiveness. But there is rarely much specificity about what "competitiveness" means. Instead, there is a sense that if America does not embrace smart policies, we will fall behind other nations. What does it mean for an American Listen to Audio


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AEI and the National Chamber Foundation joined together at this special event to better define competitiveness and to examine how policymakers might best foster it. AEI visiting scholar and Columbia Business School dean R. Glenn Hubbard, a former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, along with Kevin A. Hassett, AEI's director of economic policy studies, and Thomas J. Tauke, executive vice president for public affairs, policy, and communications at Verizon Communications, convened a discussion to better understand what competitiveness is and what might bolster America's competitiveness today and in the future.


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Morgan Goatley
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-6031
E-mail: mgoatley@aei.org
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Hampton Foushee
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5806
E-mail: hampton.foushee@aei.org
Cosponsored with the National Chamber Foundation
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How Will the United States Compete?
AEI Participants

 

Kevin A.
Hassett
  • Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University, as well as a policy consultant to the Treasury Department during the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. He served as an economic adviser to the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign and as Senator John McCain's chief economic adviser during the 2000 presidential primaries. He also served as a senior economic adviser to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign. Mr. Hassett is a columnist for National Review.

  • Phone: 202-862-7157
    Email: khassett@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Veronika Polakova
    Phone: 202-862-4880
    Email: veronika.polakova@aei.org
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R. Glenn
Hubbard
  • Glenn Hubbard, a former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is currently the dean of Columbia Business School. He specializes in public and corporate finance and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than ninety articles and books, including two textbooks, on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics, and public policy. He has served as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to, among others, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  • Phone: 2028625842
    Email: ghubbard@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Chad Hill
    Phone: 202-862-5862
    Email: chad.hill@aei.org
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