DeLeo speaks to Law and Public Policy class
Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo talked about his work to my Law and Public Policy class this morning. It was a great conversation.
Oct 31
“Large Forces” working paper now available
The first draft of my working paper Large Forces: What’s Missing in Public Administration is now completed and available here. I’ll be presenting this work at the New England Conference on Public Administration at the University of Delaware on November 2.
Economic History Review reviews AFGD
In the current issue of Economic History Review, Adam Costanzo of Wiley College reviews America’s First Great Depression: “an admirable argument for reassessing the importance of the panic of 1837 and its subsequent economic crisis.” Read the review.
Cornell University Press posts video for new book
A short video about The End of Protest is now available on YouTube.
Details on new book, “The End of Protest”
BiblioVault has just posted the details on my forthcoming ebook from Cornell University Press, The End of Protest: How Free Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent.
Foreign Affairs publishes article on role of Federal Reserve
Foreign Affairs has just published my article, Who should run the Fed? “The fight over who will succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve rolls on, getting bigger and more tangled as it goes. It is easy to get caught up in the debate about the merits of different candidates, but doing so misses a larger point. The real story here is the intensity of the fight itself, which is evidence of a shift of power toward central bankers that began under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and has been aggravated since the financial crisis of 2008.”
Ventriss discusses AFGD in ARPA
In the current issue of American Review of Public Administration, Curtis Ventriss of the University of Vermont discusses America’s First Great Depression: “What is noteworthy about Roberts’s meticulous historical analysis is not so much the validity of his conclusions, but instead his attention to the interplay of the global economy and the changing economic dynamics occurring domestically and the political detritus of such developments on the body politic. This is a prescient reminder of why the inclusion of a historical dimension is critical to any legitimate inquiry (coupled with appropriate empirical data) about the important nexus between public affairs and economic issues.” Read the article.
WEF’s Schwab discusses AFGD
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, draws on America’s First Great Depression in his recent paper on reform of the Eurozone, The Re-emergence of Europe.
PSQ reviews AFGD
The current issue of Political Science Quarterly includes a review of America’s First Great Depression, written by Johann Neem of Western Washington University. “Alasdair Roberts has written a thoughtful and timely book about how Americans in the past responded to global economic and political forces beyond their control. Roberts masterfully reinterprets the period for historians, but his goal is not primarily historical. Political scientists, policymakers, and citizens have much to learn from the economic crisis following 1837.”
Wall Street Journal discusses AFGD
The July 19 Wall Street Journal discusses America’s First Great Depression in relation to the Detroit default. (Michigan itself defaulted during the First Great Depression.) Jason Zweig calls it an “outstanding book.”
Alasdair S. Roberts 
