James Pethokoukis is a policy analyst and the Dewitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also writes and edits the AEIdeas blog and writes the Faster, Please! newsletter. In addition, he is an official contributor to CNBC television. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism, Pethokoukis is a 2002 Jeopardy! champion. Before joining AEI, he was the Washington columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, the opinion and commentary wing of Thomson Reuters, and the business editor and economics columnist for U.S. News & World Report. Mr. Pethokoukis has written for many publications, including Commentary, Investor's Business Daily, National Review, the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Examiner, and the Weekly Standard. His numerous broadcast appearances include CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, The McLaughlin Group, MSNBC, and Nightly Business Report on PBS.
"We have it within our power to build a future of greater
opportunity, greater prosperity, less suffering, and more human
freedom. We always have - but what we don't have enough of right
now is the confidence and imagination to make it so. It's time to
build, and this book shares how progress and growth can also solve
the very problems they may create."--Marc Andreessen, co-founder,
Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
"I have read widely and deeply in the progress literature, but
Pethokoukis outclasses me in this regard. Every chapter contains
fascinating quotes, stories, or ideas I hadn't heard
before."--Jason Crawford, The Roots of Progress
"In his inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan wisely declared,
'I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we
do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.'
James Pethokoukis' new book is a much-needed reminder that we are
not inexorably destined for dystopia and that our best days are not
necessarily behind us. The future could indeed be very
bright."--Matt K. Lewis, Senior Columnist at The Daily Beast
"James Pethokoukis is an indefatigable champion of techno-optimism.
With enormous passion, he weaves together innumerable threads to
chronicle fifty years of economic stagnation and to yearn for the
transformative future we need."--Eli Dourado, technology analyst
and senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity
at Utah State University
"Nothing is more confusing than the role of tech and innovation in
our world. For years I have sought a guidebook to sort the good
from the bad, and see how ingenuity can help take us to a better
future. The Conservative Futurist is that book. This is a must read
for all of us."--Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy
School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times
Bestselling Author
"A bracing tonic against pessimism and malaise, James Pethoukoukis'
The Conservative Futurist makes a compelling case for a much better
days ahead--if we embrace can-do culture and the policies it
supports."--Virginia Postrel, author of The Fabric of Civilization:
How Textiles Made the World and The Future and Its Enemies
"Conservatives today are grumpy. They're nostalgic about visions of
a past that didn't actually exist. They detest the present. And
they fear the future. It doesn't have to be this way. Indeed, it
wasn't that long ago that one could be both a conservative and an
optimist about America's future. James Pethokoukis' The
Conservative Futurist marks the renaissance of bright-eyed,
forward-looking conservatism in a moment defined by angry populism
and cranky nostalgia on the right and wet-blanket despair on the
left. With verve, a wry sense of humor, and a keen eye for hopeful
trends, Pethokoukis demonstrates how we can have the future we were
promised without losing sight of the things that matter."--Jonah
Goldberg, Editor in chief & Co-founder of The Dispatch, L.A. Times
Columnist
"If you're worried about the human prospect, be cheered and
educated and entertained. Pessimistic, 'Wing-Down, ' thinking is
commonly thought to be so, so cool. But what could be more cool yet
more sensible, more fun yet more grown-up than Pethokoukis'
'Wing-Up' book?"--Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Professor of Economics
at University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Bourgeois Equality:
How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
"It is a splendid paradox: American conservatism aims to conserve
an open society that enables perpetual social dynamism. James
Pethokoukis has peered over the horizon and discerned a future that
works, a future of constant churning that displaces stale
hierarchies and dissolves pessimism about society's
prospects."--George F. Will, Columnist, The Washington Post;
commentator NBC News and MSNBC, author of The Conservative
Sensibility
"James Pethokoukis has written an extraordinarily important book.
He understands that the future is ours to create if we have the
courage to dream and then work to make those dreams come alive. I
hope every American--conservative, liberal, and moderate--will take
his message to heart."--Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives
"James Pethokoukis is one of the most enthusiastic and
knowledgeable techno-optimists in the U.S. today. If anyone can
show the conservative movement how to embrace the future, it's
him."--Noah Smith, economist and publisher of the Noahpinion
newsletter
"James Pethokoukis' The Conservative Futurist is essential reading
on what made America great, how we lost it, and how we might
reachieve it once again. Students of history, technology,
economics, and the American dream should all read this compelling
vision of our possible future."--Tyler Cowen, economist, George
Mason University
"Thanks to a host of new technological advances, another gale of
creative destruction may be ready to roar through the American
economy. In The Conservative Futurist, James Pethokoukis offers a
timely and needed reminder of the power of free-market,
entrepreneurial capitalism, and pro-growth economics to create an
abundant tomorrow of vast prosperity--and what happens when
Washington gets in the way."--Lawrence Kudlow, Former Director of
the National Economic Council, host of Kudlow on Fox Business
Network
"Too often mainstream analysis of innovation finds only dystopian
futures. James Pethokoukis provides a compelling antidote: an
optimistic, but pragmatic, call to reignite our belief in
technology's role in building prosperity and resilience."--Azeem
Azhar, Founder, Exponential View
"We live in an era drenched in pessimism, in which populists and
nationalists on the left and right are intoxicated with nostalgia
for an imagined past. Any corrective would be a balm. But James
Pethokoukis' sparkly argument is more than a balm--it is a shot of
adrenaline. And a much needed one. Pethokoukis understands the
deeper significance of the remarkable and unprecedented period of
economic growth of the past two centuries--a short speckle in the
long timeline of our species. Progress is not merely about nicer
televisions and a greater variety of deodorant. It is not only
about longer lifespans, modern medicines, and better nutrition. It
is about human flourishing. It is about creating the conditions
under which people can aspire, dream, and fulfill their potential.
And, ultimately, it is about the survival of our species. Because
he gets it, Pethokoukis' book has an urgency and an ambition which
will propel readers forward. And it has a confidence not borne of
emotional optimism, but rooted firmly in empirical evidence. Why is
this book about 'conservative' futurism? Because it seeks to
conserve that which is best about our species--that which got us to
where we are, and which will mark the stars on our journey
forward."--Michael R. Strain, Economist, The American Enterprise
Institute
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