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Senior Fellow for Economic History
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September 15, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes warns that without the right incentives, market players will continue to game the system in the very fashion that President Obama deplored in his speech on reforming financial regulation.
See more in United States, International Finance
August 25, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes comments on efforts to reduce the pay gap between men and women.
See more in United States, Economics
August 13, 2009
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Amity Shlaes examines the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act.
See more in United States, Economics
August 11, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes argues that both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of hypocrisy when discussing end-of-life care in the health care debate.
See more in United States, Economics, Health, Science, and Technology, Global Health
July 28, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes argues that the Federal Reserve is a "monarchy" with power to intervene in the world economy.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
July 9, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes compares today's economic policy with that of the 1980s.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
July 6, 2009
Op-Ed
Time Magazine
Amity Shlaes argues, "FDR's tenacity did not suffice to get the economy back to where it had been before the Great Depression began."
See more in United States, Economics, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
June 23, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
Amity Shlaes considers the elimination of the job of U.S trade representative.
See more in United States, Trade
June 9, 2009
Op-Ed
Amity Shlaes argues, "Europe's stunning fiscal outlays permitted it to pursue tighter monetary policy, while the U.S. used monetary policy as a substitute for European-scale fiscal spending."
See more in Europe/Russia, Germany, International Finance
May 8, 2009
Op-Ed
Forbes Online
Amity Shlaes discusses Wendell Willkie's criticisms of New Deal policies.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
April 21, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
Amity Shlaes argues that the new Financial Trust Index offers cause for optimism.
See more in United States, Economics, U.S. Strategy and Politics
March 30, 2009, New York
Transcript
The sixth session of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on a second look at the Great Depression and the New Deal.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
March 30, 2009, New York
Transcript
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."
See more in United States, Economics
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.
See more in United States, Economics, Financial Crises
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.
See more in United States, Economics
January 15, 2009
Op-Ed
Bloomberg.com
Amity Shlaes writes about the unlikely connection between Israel and India.
See more in India, Israel, Wars and Warfare, Terrorism
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.
See more in Japan, Economic Development, U.S. Election 2008
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.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
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.
See more in United States, Financial Crises
September 24, 2008
Op-Ed
Bloomberg
The financial crisis could lead the United States to turn inward and ignore challengers such as Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez. However, in this Bloomberg op-ed, Amity Shlaes warns against this temptation and points out that foreign issues have a way of becoming immediate as well.
See more in Venezuela, Russian Fed., Economics, Financial Crises, Global Governance
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
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.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
Complete list of CFR Books
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