24 Facts About Amity Shlaes

Amity Ruth Shlaes is an American conservative author, writer, and columnist.

Amity Shlaes is a recipient of the Bastiat Prize and, more recently, the Bradley Prize.

Amity Shlaes attended the Freie Universitaet Berlin on a DAAD fellowship.

Amity Shlaes is a current events columnist for Forbes at the front of the magazine, rotating with Paul Johnson and David Malpass.

Amity Shlaes writes a print column for Forbes magazine, rotating with Lee Kwan Yew, David Malpass, and Paul Johnson.

Amity Shlaes is a regular contributor to Marketplace, the public radio show.

Amity Shlaes has appeared on numerous other radio and television shows over the course of her career.

Amity Shlaes followed the collapse of communism for The Wall Street Journal Europe and in the early 1990s she served as the Journal's op-ed editor.

For two years, Shlaes worked at the George W Bush Presidential Center, leading the economic growth project.

Since Fall 2008, Amity Shlaes has served as an adjunct associate professor of economics at New York University Stern School of Business, teaching a course titled "The Economics of the Great Depression".

Amity Shlaes serves as a Presidential Scholar at The King's College in New York City.

Amity Shlaes has served on the jury of the Bastiat Prize.

Amity Shlaes has written articles about this time period, including a piece in The New Yorker on the Deutsche mark and the euro.

Amity Shlaes followed that book with The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It.

Amity Shlaes's next book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, was published in 2007 and was a study of the Great Depression in the United States and the New Deal.

Amity Shlaes is the author of Coolidge, which debuted at number three on the New York Times bestseller list.

Amity Shlaes's biography provides a window onto an unfairly tarnished period.

Philip Seib, professor and director of the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, praises Amity Shlaes for revealing Coolidge's fiscal discipline in the Dallas Morning News.

Amity Shlaes deserves thanks for helping us, nearly a century after his tenure, to consider his approach to economic policy and the presidency, as well as his place in history.

Amity Shlaes wrote the foreword to Seeds of Destruction, a book by Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia Business School, and economist Peter Navarro.

Amity Shlaes wrote the introduction to Wall Street Journal editor George Melloan's The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism.

Amity Shlaes contributed to, along with Harold James and Samuel Gregg, 2012 the book Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good, which examines the nature and scope of ethics in relation to global economics, especially in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Amity Shlaes was a contributor to the special 30th anniversary edition of the scholarly journal Tax Notes.

Amity Shlaes's essay was titled "The Future of American Taxation".