Oct 29
I just published a piece on Bloomberg’s Echoes blog about Washington’s handling of an earlier “fiscal cliff” — in 1842. The piece is drawn from America’s First Great Depression. Read the article. The piece has also been picked up by Newsday.
A Reuters report that draws comparisons between America’s First Great Depression and today’s European crisis: “The parallel with the euro zone crisis barely needs spelling out.” Read the article. Also on CNBC and International Financing Review.
EH.net, the website of the Economic History Association, has posted a review of America’s First Great Depression by Professor Peter Rousseau. “Roberts does students of the period a service by thinking outside of the normal constraints to conjure a broad and international view of the decade that followed the Jackson presidency.” Read the review.
Stars and Stripes features my Bloomberg column on US naval policy in today’s top news stories. Read the story.
A column in Business New Europe compares the contemporary European crisis with America’s First Great Depression. “What proves particularly interesting about 1837-1845 is the comparisons that can be made between the political, economic and market thinking in a US that was roughly 60 years old, and the roughly 60-year old EU. ” Read the column: “Merkel, Draghi and 1837”
Bloomberg’s Echoes blog has published my short piece on US naval policy after the War of 1812 — including the construction of a “ghost fleet” of major ships. Read the column. It draws on America’s First Great Depression. Story also picked up on gCaptain and History News Network. Image on right: a stereographic photo of the USS New Orleans, taken in the 1870s. 
Its keel was laid at Sackets Harbor NY in 1815. Had it been finished, it would have been one of the largest warships in the US Navy, and perhaps the world.
The American Review of Public Administration has just published a review of America’s First Great Depression. The book “shows the extent to which economic crisis can ripple out into something far larger,” says Jos Raadschelders. Access the review.
I’ll be giving a talk about America’s First Great Depression at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge MA on September 14. Details here.
The Los Angeles Times has published my oped on the troubles of the US Postal Service in the 1840s. Read the oped. This piece is drawn from America’s First Great Depression. Also on History News Network.
Jason Zasky of Failure Magazine interviewed me last week about America’s First Great Depression. Read the interview. And there’s a Washington Post story about Failure Magazine itself here.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
