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Amity Shlaes discusses "A Rigged Game: Monopoly, Business and the Failure of the New Deal"

Amity Shlaes, a Yale alumna and renowned writer of politics and economics has been a syndicated columnist for more than a decade and is currently a columnist for Forbes. She has previously written about economics in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, and the National Review, among many other publications. She has also authored multiple bestsellers that explored a range of topics, from the Great Depression to the American tax code. Shlaes is dedicated to the task of economic education and currently serves as a director for the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Institute. Shlaes is the Chairman of the Board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. According to SLC politics faculty member Samuel Abrams, her recent book, The Forgotten Man, "delivers a provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge."

Location on campus: Donnelley Film Theatre/Lecture Hall in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center

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