Education and career Amity Shlaes

1 education , career

1.1 books , other writings

1.1.1 germany: empire within
1.1.2 greedy hand
1.1.3 forgotten man
1.1.4 coolidge
1.1.5 other work


1.2 awards , honors
1.3 personal

education , career

shlaes graduated yale university magna cum laude bachelor s degree in english in 1982. attended freie universitaet berlin on daad fellowship.

she current events columnist forbes @ front of magazine, rotating paul johnson , david malpass. until 2013, wrote syndicated column bloomberg news. shlaes writes print column forbes magazine, rotating lee kwan yew, david malpass, , paul johnson. shlaes regular contributor marketplace, public radio show. has appeared on numerous other radio , television shows on course of career.

before writing column bloomberg, shlaes columnist financial times 5 years, until september 2005. before member of editorial board of wall street journal, specializing in economics. followed collapse of communism wall street journal europe , in 1990s served journal s op-ed editor.

over years, has written new yorker, american spectator, commentary, spectator (uk), foreign affairs, forbes, national review, new republic, süddeutsche zeitung , die zeit, among others. obituary of milton friedman appeared in new york sun.

for 2 years (2012 , 2013), shlaes worked @ george w. bush presidential center, leading economic growth project. in 2011, named director of 4% growth project @ george w. bush institute. initiative aimed @ illuminating ideas , reforms can yield faster, higher quality economic growth.before joining bush institute served decade senior fellow in economic history @ council on foreign relations (cfr), independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, , publisher. senior fellow in economic history @ cfr david rockefeller studies program, shlaes worked within maurice r. greenberg center geo-economic studies (cgs), dedicated promoting better understanding among policymakers , academic specialists of how economic , political forces interact influence world affairs.

since fall 2008, shlaes has served adjunct associate professor of economics @ new york university stern school of business, teaching course titled economics of great depression . serves presidential scholar @ king s college in new york city.

she chairs jury hayek prize of manhattan institute policy research, $50,000 book prize. has served on jury of bastiat prize. shlaes has won both prizes. in past, trustee of german marshall fund.

books , other writings
germany: empire within

shlaes s first book germany: empire within, german national identity @ time of reunification. has written articles time period, including piece in new yorker on deutsche mark , euro.

the greedy hand

she followed book greedy hand: how taxes drive americans crazy , it. national bestseller. fred goldberg, former irs commissioner, called terrific book on history of politics , taxing in america ... must read—whether come left, right, or mushy middle. steve forbes described greedy hand economic bible believe in growth .

the forgotten man

shlaes speaking @ 2017 conservative political action conference

shlaes s next book, forgotten man: new history of great depression, published in 2007 , study of great depression in united states , new deal. book argues both presidents herbert hoover , franklin delano roosevelt promoted economic policies counterproductive, prolonged great depression, , established modern entitlement trap. forgotten man new york times bestseller 19 weeks, on 250,000 copies in print. has been published in german, italian, korean, chinese (mandarin) , japanese.

economist paul krugman has criticized forgotten man, taking issue central tenet new deal policies exacerbated great depression. krugman wrote of whole intellectual industry, operating out of right-wing think tanks, devoted propagating idea fdr made depression worse.... definitive study of fiscal policy in 1930s, mit economist e. cary brown, reached different conclusion: fiscal stimulus unsuccessful not because not work, because not tried . krugman accused shlaes of disseminating misleading statistics. shlaes responded krugman in wall street journal, saying estimates of employment , unemployment during period used lebergott/bureau of labor statistics series. wrote statistician stanley lebergott intentionally did not include temporary jobs in emergency programs—because count short-term, make-work project real job mask anxiety of 1 didn t have regular work long-term prospects.

shlaes went on if obama administration proposes f.d.r.-style recovery programs, useful establish whether original programs brought recovery. answer is, didn t.

writing in forbes, hudson institute fellow diana furchtgott-roth first lays out shlaes s view: points out federal spending during new deal did not restore economic health. unemployment stayed high , dow jones industrial average stayed low. after explaining krugman s position new deal failed spend enough money achieve full employment, furchtgott-roth concludes, new president needs listen many voices.

journalist jonathan chait has called book self-contradictory, misleading, , inaccurate. novelist , essayist john updike criticized book revisionist history of depression .

coolidge

shlaes author of coolidge, debuted @ number 3 on new york times bestseller list. former fed chairman alan greenspan listed 1 of best books of 2013. on february 13, 2013, msnbc published excerpt of coolidge onto morning joe blog part of discussion on books breaking new ground on way think american presidents ... [including] coolidge has reemerged hero of small government republicanism. .

during show, sam tanenhaus, editor of new york times book review, praised shlaes brilliant journalist, has great feel republican party happens @ particular moment , instead of echoing s being said, ll ahead bit ... s saying there s older style of republican politics party may able recapture. in interview national review online, shlaes said interested in profiling coolidge because forgotten president.... economic performance , statesmanship suggest [he] belongs in top quarter of presidents.

in wall street journal, shlaes explains how calvin coolidge able cut taxes top marginal rates following andrew mellon s method of scientific taxation , reduce national debt, , balance budget. shlaes writes pondering presidential runs 2016 heed silent cal s deeds. economist gives shlaes , latest book high praise revisiting overlooked presidency. american readers believe intervention thing blanch @ controversial new biography of coolidge ... however, if brave enough read on discover presidency of remarkable achievement has received little attention.... ms. shlaes s biography provides window onto unfairly tarnished period. deserves read.

robert merry of wall street journal praised coolidge, writing, coolidge years represent country s distilled experiment in supply-side economics.... success central coolidge legacy, brought home telling authority in ms. shlaes s work. jacob heilbrunn of new york times commends shlaes thorough work, commenting, (shlaes) has assiduously researched coolidge s life, drawing both on private papers (going far photograph appointment books) , on contemporary newspaper reports.

philip seib, professor , director of center on public diplomacy @ university of southern california, praises shlaes revealing coolidge s fiscal discipline in dallas morning news. writes, calvin coolidge man , president of times. shlaes deserves helping us, century after tenure, consider approach economic policy , presidency, place in history. coolidge debuted on new york times best seller list nonfiction on march 3, 2013, @ number three.

other work

shlaes wrote foreword seeds of destruction, book glenn hubbard, dean of columbia business school, , scholar peter navarro. wrote introduction wall street journal editor george melloan s great money binge: spending our way socialism.

in 2003 coauthored, late robert bartley of wall street journal, piece on tax philosophy, published in manhattan institute s turning intellect influence. contributed to, along harold james , samuel gregg, 2012 book natural law, economics , common good, examines nature , scope of ethics in relation global economics, in wake of 2008 financial crisis.

shlaes contributor special 30th anniversary edition of scholarly journal tax notes. essay titled future of american taxation .

in 2012, authored article entitled growth lessons calvin coolidge in 4% solution: unleashing economic growth america needs, published george w. bush presidential center.

awards , honors

in 2001, shlaes included in yale alumni magazine s list of s been blue .
she 2002 co-winner of international policy network s frederic bastiat prize, international prize writing on political economy.
in 2003, spent several months @ american academy in berlin jp morgan fellow finance , economy.
she gave 2004 bradley lecture @ american enterprise institute. speech, titled chicken vs. eagle , looked @ effect of national recovery administration on entrepreneurs.
she awarded 2007 deadline club award opinion writing, , newswomen s club of new york s front page award bloomberg columns.

personal

shlaes married fellow journalist seth lipsky in 1988. have 4 children.