Michael Moynihan is an American author and the nephew of

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Daniel Patrick Moynihan (; March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, diplomat and social scientist. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he represented New York (state), New York in the ...

, former

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(

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) from

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.Congressional Statement by Senator Moynihan
Penn State University – Advocacy and Public Policymaking project, official website. (June 21, 1999) Retrieved January 10, 2011 He wrote ''The Coming American Renaissance'', a rebuttal of works by

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and others, argued that America possessed a unique set of economic advantages that would propel it to global leadership in the 21st century. Moynihan cited

technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

leadership, in particular, as a driver of

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. He worked in the

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as an advisor to Secretaries of the Treasury,

Lawrence Summers Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as the director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as presiden ...

and

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from 1996 to 1999. Moynihan was in charge of

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and

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policy and was involved with the effort to pass the

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. Moynihan founded the Internet website AlwaysonTV.

Books

* ''The Coming American Renaissance'', Simon and Schuster (1996. )

References

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External links

Official website
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