Episode 136: Bold Experimentation Should Be No Deal: A Conversation with Amity Shlaes

David is joined this week by economic historian Amity Shlaes for a discussion on her new project, "New Deal Rebels," an anthology of anti-New-Deal writings done during the actual New Deal. Defenders of free enterprise and a constitutional republic would be wise to understand the era that seemed to deeply transform the state’s relationship to the economy in American life. Many will find the connections to challenges and conversations of today eerie. If you are more inclined to federalism and market prosperity than you are to the “appeal to vanity” that is New-Deal thinking, this is a podcast episode for you!