Economics

摘要

In the year 2020, under the tutelage of the novel coronavirus, we learned that many things we assumed could be ignored because we thought they were solid "givens" are really shaky and fluid. Perhaps most shocking was the kink in the armor of American exceptionalism. Because of the nation's wealth and large pool of talent, Americans believe in American triumphalism. We are the nation that stepped in to put an end to World War I, and then did it once more to win World War Ⅱ in Europe and Asia. We put men on the moon and returned them safely. We gave the world most of its greatest commercial technologies from television to movies to the telephone, and some of human's greatest health breakthroughs from the safe storage of blood plasma to the polio vaccine.