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May 15, 2013

Heads of State and Government
National History Center Series: Coolidge

This meeting is part of a series hosted with the National History Center featuring prominent historians who will examine the events and times that shaped foreign policy as we know it today.

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April 7, 2008

Fossil Fuels
Smart Countries, Foolish Choices

Overview Intuition tells us that oil-rich countries are not friendly to the United States, and that entreprenurial—or “smart”—countries are not endowed with oil. In this Center for Geoeconomic …

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May 30, 2007

United States
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Watch Amity Shlaes, the Council's visiting senior fellow for geoeconomics, discuss her new book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.

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May 20, 2008

Economic Crises
The Forgotten Man

Teaching Notes on The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by CFR Senior Fellow Amity Shlaes.

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May 7, 2007

Development
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism: And the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

In their new book, authors Robert Litan and Carl Schramm document four different varieties of capitalism, some good and some bad for growth.  They examine how countries catching up to the United Stat…

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