Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Speaker

Daniel Senor

Author, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Introductory Speakers

Richard Haass

President, Council on Foreign Relations

"The West needs innovation; Israel's got it," write CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Dan Senor and the Jerusalem Post's Saul Singer, in Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, a new CFR book. They argue that the Israeli economic model, based on innovation, can help the United States, in particular, "get out of its economic hole."

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