Can Austerity Ever Be Popular? What Amity Shlaes Learned from Calvin Coolidge about Austerity and Property Rights

Amity Shlaes, Sept. 24, 2013

Amity Shlaes delivers a lecture titled "“Can Austerity Ever Be Popular? What Amity Shlaes Learned from Calvin Coolidge about Austerity and Property Rights.” The Hayek Lecture Series is sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy, the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and the program in American Values and Institutions at Duke University. The series is supported by a grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation. For more on Ms. Shlaes, please log on to her website: http://www.amityshlaes.com/.