by Henry Oliner | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the Wall Street Journal from Phil Gramm and Amity Shlaes.The ‘Gilded Age’ Myth, Then and Now: Excerpt: Between 1870 and 1900, America’s inflation-adjusted gross national product expanded by an unprecedented 233%. Though the population nearly doubled, real per...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 13, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Amity Shlaes wrote bookends to the second progressive period with The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Great Society: A New History. William Voegeli wrote an outstanding review of these books in The New Criterion in March of 2020 titled Not So...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 11, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
Amity Shlaes wrote bookends to the second progressive period with The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and Great Society: A New History. William Voegeli wrote an outstanding review of these books in The New Criterion in March of 2020 titled Not So...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 9, 2021 | Politics, Progressivism
I consider the Progressive evolution in three periods, punctuated by reactions. The first was from 1900-1920, ending with the landslide election of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The second period was from 1930-1980, ending with the landslide election of Ronald...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 1, 2020 | Economics
Great Society by Amity Shlaes tells the story of the disappointments of Johnson’s signature program; the lessons are many. The inflation of the 1970’s had numerous causes and led many of us to conclude that the deficits of the most recent decade under both Obama and...
