The Next American Economy, Samuel Gregg
The Next American Economy, Samuel Gregg
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The Next American Economy
Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World

Author: Samuel Gregg

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

One of America’s greatest success stories is its economy. For over a century, it has been the envy of the world. The opportunity it generates has inspired millions of people to want to become American.Today, however, America’s economy is at a crossroads. Many have lost confidence in the country’s commitment to economic liberty. Across the political spectrum, many want the government to play an even greater role in the economy via protectionism, industrial policy, stakeholder capitalism, or even quasi-socialist policies. Numerous American political and business leaders are embracing these ideas, and traditional defenders of markets have struggled to respond to these challenges in fresh ways. Then there is a resurgent China bent on eclipsing the United States’s place in the world. At stake is not only the future of the world’s biggest economy, but the economic liberty that remains central to America’s identity as a nation.But managed decline and creeping statism do not have to be America’s only choices, let alone its destiny. For this audiobook insists that there is an alternative. And that is a vibrant market economy grounded on entrepreneurship, competition, and trade openness, but embedded in what America’s founding generation envisaged as the United States’s future: a dynamic Commercial Republic that takes freedom, commerce, and the common good of all Americans seriously, and allows America as a sovereign-nation to pursue and defend its interests in a dangerous world without compromising its belief in the power of economic freedom.

About Samuel Gregg

Samuel Gregg is Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research, and a research fellow at the Acton Institute. The author of sixteen books and more than four hundred articles, he has written for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, the Spectator, Foreign Affairs, National Review, American Banker, and Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He has also appeared on American and foreign broadcast media including the BBC and Fox Business Channel.

About Alex Boyles

Read by Alex Boyles, Chelsea Stephens, Heath Miller, Helen Lloyd, James Anderson Foster, and Kevin Kenerly

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

9/10......more

Goodreads review by Vance

Excellent book by Samuel Gregg that highlights the classical liberal development in the founding of the idea of America. The book is rich with background, history, and research that provides a timeless book to help us understand the past so we can better deal with the future. I highly recommend read......more

Goodreads review by Kent

The title is misleading. The book is more of a history of the American economy.......more

Goodreads review by Drtaxsacto

Gregg is a scholar in Washington who has a keen ability to explain the fine points of Adam Smith, Hume, Burke and the Founders and to interpret why the US was not formed as a democracy. Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations to raise questions about the Mercantilist regime - crony capitalism of his era -......more

Goodreads review by Taylor

I wanted this to be 5 stars, with new arguments and data. It was mostly what I’ve heard before. But if you’re not fully immersed in the world Gregg is writing from it will likely provide new info.......more

Quotes

“Could we get Samuel Gregg’s book into the hands of every high school senior and graduating college student, please? Will someone intent on changing the direction of America’s economy seize on this text and send it far and wide? Gregg has written a book…that should be read from East to West, North to South.” Hugh Hewitt, author, attorney, and national host of The Hugh Hewitt Show

“For years, movements that reject free trade and advocate for industrial policy have gained traction on the right. They have yet to receive a cogent response from conservatives who recognize the U.S. economy’s problems…Samuel Gregg has produced the response that we need. The Next American Economy is a perfect storm…the defining book in addressing this vital topic.” David L. Bahnsen, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, and host of National Review’s Capital Record podcast

“Read this powerful argument from Samuel Gregg as to why faith in the American Experiment…requires us to reject economic nationalist trends toward protectionism, the use of industrial policy, and other interventions in the pursuit of transient and populist agendas. Markets grounded in a commercial republic are what America needs. Gregg shows why.” Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor of Business Economics and Law at Chapman University

“We’re long overdue for a morally compelling defense of the market economy…In the great and neglected tradition of Adam Smith, Samuel Gregg has given us a philosophical treatment of economic questions that places moral and political concerns front and center while bringing to bear empirical knowledge and sophisticated technical expertise.” Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University

“Gregg creatively distinguishes between the forces of state capitalism and the free market economy…[and] shows us…that America must do much more than follow sound economics.” John B. Taylor, professor of economics at Stanford University

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