Education and Career
Amity Shlaes graduated from Yale University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1982.
Since 2007, Shlaes has been writing a syndicated column for Bloomberg News. The column appears weekly both on Bloomberg terminals and websites, and in papers such as the Orange County Register, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Shlaes also writes a print column for Forbes Magazine, rotating with Lee Kwan Yew, David Malpass, and Paul Johnson. She is also a regular contributor to Marketplace, the public radio show. She has appeared on numerous other radio and television shows over the course of her career.
Before writing her column for Bloomberg, Shlaes was a columnist for the Financial Times for five years, until September 2005. Before that she was a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, specializing in economics. She 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.
Over the years, she has written for The New Yorker, The American Spectator, Commentary Magazine,The Spectator(UK), Foreign Affairs, Forbes, National Review, The New Republic, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit, among others. Her obituary of Milton Friedman appeared in The New York Sun.
In 2011, she was named director of the 4% Growth Project at the George W. Bush Institute. This initiative is aimed at illuminating ideas and reforms that can yield faster, higher quality economic growth. Before joining the Bush Institute she served a decade as a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. As a Senior fellow in Economic History at CFR David Rockefeller Studies Program, -- Shlaes worked within the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geo-economic Studies (CGS), dedicated to promoting better understanding among policymakers and academic specialists of how economic and political forces interact to influence world affairs.
Since Fall 2008, 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."
She has served at various times as Chairman of the Board of the International Policy Network, home to the world's leading prize for free-market journalism, the Bastiat Prize. She serves on the jury for the Friedrich von Hayek Prize. She is a trustee of the American Institute in Contemporary German Studies and the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. In the past, she was a trustee of the German Marshall Fund.
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