The Conscience of a Liberal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
When you hear claims that the New Deal made the depression worse, they often come directly or indirectly from the work of Amity Shlaes, whose misleading statistics have been widely disseminated on the right. Now, Ms. Shlaes has found a new target: John Maynard Keynes. There's a lot to critique in this piece, but this one [...]
Pundit Review (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
It was a pleasure to speak with author Amity Shlaes Sunday night on Pundit Review Radio. Ms. Shlaes is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has written a tremendous book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Given the current [...]
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
That’s a lot! Detail here. (via) You know, one of the things I like about being a liberal is that if you come into an issue with pre-assumptions and then the evidence contradictions your initial assumptions, well then you throw out your initial thesis or at least modify it (ask a scientist sometime about that). Conservatives, [...]
Capitalism & Freedom (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Amity Shlaes nicely outlined ( link ) the upcoming return of Keynesian economic policy initiated by efforts to boost consumer spending despite the empirical evidence about the lifetime path of consumption pattern. While president Obama has a very smart and knowledgeable team of economic advisers such as Jason Furman, David Cutler and Jeff Liebman, he opposed free-trade agreements with...
Economist's View (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Paul Krugman sets the record straight. Again: Amity Shlaes strikes again, by Paul Krugman: When you hear claims that the New Deal made the depression worse, they often come directly or indirectly from the work of Amity Shlaes, whose misleading...
Council on Foreign Relations (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
This module features teaching notes by Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, along with other resources to supplement the text. In her book, Miss Shlaes asserts that the real question about the Depression is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II, but why the Depression lasted so long. She argues that federal intervention between...
Redstate (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Let's turn the microphone over to Amity Shlaes , who discusses Obamaian plans for an economic stimulus by bringing up the inconvenient facts about the stimulus plan passed earlier this year: The limits start showing up with the tiniest of stimuli, those government checks Americans received in the mail last spring. The idea was that having the cash would cheer up consumers so that they...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Let's turn the microphone over to Amity Shlaes , who discusses Obamaian plans for an economic stimulus by bringing up the inconvenient facts about the stimulus plan passed earlier this year: The limits start showing up with the tiniest of stimuli, those government checks Americans received in the mail...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Unstimulating Let’s turn the microphone over to Amity Shlaes, who discusses Obamaian plans for an economic stimulus by bringing up the inconvenient facts about the stimulus plan passed earlier this year: The limits start showing up with the tiniest of stimuli, those government checks Americans received in the mail last spring. The idea was that having the cash would cheer up [...]
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Let's turn the microphone over to Amity Shlaes, who discusses Obamaian plans for an economic...
The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
By AMITY SHLAES, AT: THE trouble with new financial crises is that they provide pretexts for implementing old social agendas. As the president-elect's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said recently, "never allow a crisis to go to waste." Consider President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which President-elect Barack Obama invokes when he talks of "a defining moment." Like Obama today,...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Amity Shlaes: THE trouble with new financial crises is that they provide pretexts for implementing old social agendas. As the president-elect's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said recently, "never allow a crisis to go to waste." Consider President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which President-elect Barack Obama invokes when he talks of "a defining moment." Like Obama today, FDR was...
