Amity Shlaes
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Amity Shlaes is an American columnist from New York, who writes about politics and economics. She is an advocate for free-markets.
She writes a syndicated column for Bloomberg News and is Visiting Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics[1] at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her many appearances on Television and radio include regular commentary on public radio for Marketplace.
She previously wrote a column for the Financial Times for five years, for which she won the International Policy Network's Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2002.[2] Before that, she worked at the Wall Street Journal, where she was a member of the editorial board. She has also written for The American Spectator, Commentary Magazine, Foreign Affairs, National Review, and The New Republic, among others. Her obituary of Milton Friedman appeared[3] in The New York Sun.
Her first book was Germany: The Empire Within (ISBN 0-224-02700-X), about Germany at the time of reunification. Her latest book is The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It (ISBN 0-375-50132-0). Her next book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (ISBN 0-06-621170-0), about the Great Depression and the New Deal, is due to be published by HarperCollins in June 2007.
