Budget, Taxation & Economy
Alberto Alesina, in memory
Surprisingly, for as much as Alberto Alesina’s work has meant to my own understanding of markets and governments, a Google search indicates I’ve only mentioned him by name once before.…
Amity Shlaes
American writer focusing on politics and economics
Liberty
Shlaes exposes not-so-Great Society
William Voegeli reviews for the New Criterion a book correcting the historical record about Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. It’s authored by Amity Shlaes, who’s following up her documentation of the…
Liberty
Playing the Long Game Against Socialism
In “How to Stem the Tide of Socialism,” Amity Shlaes tells the story of an effort to educate the public about the dangers of socialism that paid big dividends in later…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Calvin Coolidge Kept Lion Cubs as Pets. No Kidding.
President Calvin Coolidge is a favorite of fiscal conservatives and thousands of pages have been written to explain his contributions. But here’s something you may not know: the Coolidge family…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Shlaes questions popular economic statistic
Amity Shlaes explains for City Journal why popular economic metrics can prove misleading. At least for now, most progressives acknowledge that markets and economic growth are necessary. But progressives in…
Education
Forbes magazine column mentions libertarian Luddy’s education work
In her latest contribution to Forbes magazine, Amity Shlaes offers this observation about a North Carolina education innovator. A third plant that has sprouted without federal cash or friendship is…
Regulation
A federal rule that hurts millennials
Amity Shlaes explains in a Forbes column why a move to scrap the Obama administration’s expansion of overtime benefits to workers with lower salaries makes sense for millennials. “A GOLDEN…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Shlaes ponders Trump’s pick for labor secretary
Amity Shlaes dissects for Forbes readers President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for the next U.S. labor secretary. A THUMB in the eye to the minimum-wage lobby is how most of the…
Liberty
Shlaes examines the immigration debate
Amity Shlaes‘ latest Forbes column ponders the contentious debate over immigration. “IMMIGRATION restrictionist = racist.” “Restrictionist nation = racist nation.” These are the basic equations animating the opponents of President-elect…
Regulation
In praise of MetLife
Amity Shlaes pens a paean to MetLife in the latest issue of Forbes. “THANK YOU, MetLife.” That’s what we all ought to be saying this month, as the insurance company…
Liberty
Brexit and Downton Abbey
Amity Shlaes makes the connection in her latest Forbes column. … [T]o trace the principles that animate Downton is to understand more of what drives Britons who voted Leave. Downton…
Liberty
Shlaes wants to end one particularly egregious example of cultural appropriation
Concerned about “cultural appropriation” — degrading a culture by misusing one of its images or items? So is Amity Shlaes, as she explains in the latest edition of Forbes. [I]f…