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March 30, 2009, New York
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1995 Nobel Laureate in Economics Robert Lucas speaks at the luncheon session of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on "A Second Look at the Great Depression and the New Deal."
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March 30, 2009
Audio
Listen to Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr. reflect on why it is important to discuss Depression era policies in light of the current financial crisis.
This session was part of the CFR-New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business symposium: A Second Look at the Great Depression, which was made possible through the generous support of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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March 30, 2009
Video
Watch Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr. reflect on why it is important to discuss Depression era policies in light of the current financial crisis.
This session was part of the CFR-New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business symposium: A Second Look at the Great Depression, which was made possible through the generous support of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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March 30, 2009
Video
Watch experts discuss lessons learned from the 1930s that can be applied to today's financial crisis, including the importance of leadership and the effects of government spending.
This session was part of the CFR-New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business symposium: A Second Look at the Great Depression, which was made possible through the generous support of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
See more in Economics, Financial Crises
March 30, 2009
Audio
Listen to experts discuss lessons learned from the 1930s that can be applied to today's financial crisis, including the importance of leadership and the effects of government spending.
This session was part of the CFR-New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business symposium: A Second Look at the Great Depression, which was made possible through the generous support of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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March 23, 2009
Op-Ed
Forbes Online
Amity Shlaes compares the G-20 summit with the London Economic Conference of 1933.
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February 18, 2009
Op-Ed
Politico
Amity Shlaes responds to Matthew Dallek's critique of her book, The Forgotten Man, and invites him to join a debate regarding the New Deal.
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February 2, 2009
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Amity Shlaes argues that we should not repeat the New Deal stimulus experiments. The Depression tells us that public works are probably less effective than improving the environment for entrepreneurs and new companies.
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January 15, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
Amity Shlaes writes about the unlikely connection between Israel and India.
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December 31, 2008
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
In this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes argues against the Kiddie Tax, which discourages venturesome young investors.
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December 31, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Amity Shlaes looks at lessons for President-elect Obama in FDR's experimentation during the Great Depression.
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December 17, 2008
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
Recent research suggests that the high-wage method of fending off economic depression can make a depression more likely. In this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes argues that allowing wages to fall would reduce the risk of another depression.
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December 10, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
In this Washington Post op-ed, Amity Shlaes writes that huge public works projects, such as the one put forward by President-elect Obama, often fail to revive national economies, as evidenced by the example of Japan in the 1990s.
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December 3, 2008
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
After the National Bureau of Economic Research issued a routine report on our recent troubles, the Dow dropped 7.7 percent. In this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes suggests that one reason markets reacted so negatively to a backward looking meter is the high standard set by our success in taming the business cycle since World War II.
November 29, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Amity Shlaes responds to the claim that the trouble with the New Deal was that it didn't spend enough. Instead, she argues that massive government spending takes away jobs in the private sector.
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November 20, 2008
Audio
Listen to Amity Shlaes, senior fellow for economic history at CFR, discuss her book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and lessons learned for the current financial crisis as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call Series.
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November 20, 2008
Academic Module
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 1929 and 1940 unnecessarily deepened and prolonged the Depression.
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November 19, 2008
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
In this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes argues that President-elect Obama should not use Keynesian solutions to address the economic crisis. She points out that the Great Society of the mid-1960s, which was the ultimate Keynesian experiment, did not work very well.
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November 17, 2008
Op-Ed
New York Post
In this New York Post op-ed, Amity Shlaes says that the Democratic Party is widening the definition of 'change' by the hour, using the financial crisis as a pretext to advance old social agendas. But government health care and ‘card check' legislation don't have much to do with mortgage crises.
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June 2007
Book
In this timely book, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who, through their brave perseverance, helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
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