This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great.
With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created his finest book to date, a work that weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis. This book, written with Krugman's trademark ability to explain complex issues simply, will transform the debate about American social policy in much the same way as did John Kenneth Galbraith's deeply influential book, The Affluent Society .
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Economist and New York Times columnist Krugman's stimulating manifesto aims to galvanize today's progressives the way Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative did right-wingers in 1964. Krugman's great theme is economic equality and the liberal politics that support it. America's post-war middle-class society was not the automatic product of a free-market economy, he writes, but was created... by the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. By strengthening labor unions and taxing the rich to fund redistributive programs like Social Security and Medicare, the New Deal consensus narrowed the income gap, lifted the working class out of poverty and made the economy boom. Things went awry, Krugman contends, with the Republican Party's takeover by movement conservatism, practicing a politics of deception [and] distraction to advance the interests of the wealthy. Conservative initiatives to cut taxes for the rich, dismantle social programs and demolish unions, he argues, have led to sharply rising inequality, with the incomes of the wealthiest soaring while those of most workers stagnate. Krugman's accessible, stylishly presented argument deftly combines economic data with social and political analysis; his account of the racial politics driving conservative successes is especially sharp. The result is a compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny. (Oct.)
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About the Author Paul Krugman is the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. He is a best-selling author, columnist, and blogger for the New York Times , and is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University.

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Paul R. Krugman

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Norton Professional Books

United States, United States of America

First edition, New York, 2007

First Edition, FR, 2007

Princeton, N.J, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"With a new introduction" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-284) and index.

subject: Income distribution; Equality; Revenu; égalité (Sociologie)

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topic: Income distribution; Equality; Revenu; égalité (Sociologie)

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) 1 THE WAY WE WERE
2. (p2) 2 THE LONG GILDED AGE
3. (p3) 3 THE GREAT COMPRESSION
4. (p4) 4 THE POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE
5. (p5) 5 THE SIXTIES: A TROUBLED PROSPERITY
6. (p6) 6 MOVEMENT CONSERVATISM
7. (p7) 7 THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
8. (p8) 8 THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY
9. (p9) 9 WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION
10. (p10) 10 THE NEW POLITICS OF EQUALITY
11. (p11) 11 THE HEALTH CARE IMPERATIVE
12. (p12) 12 CONFRONTING INEQUALITY
13. (p13) 13 THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL
14. (p14) NOTES
15. (p15) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
16. (p16) INDEX

theme: Income distribution; Equality; Revenu; égalité (Sociologie)

<p><p>this Wholly Original New Work By The Best-selling Author Of <b>the Great Unraveling</b> Challenges America To Reclaim The Values That Made It Great.</p> <h3>the New York Times - Peter Beinart</h3> <p>repeatedly In <i>the Conscience Of A Liberal</i> Mr. Krugman Suggests That Things We Take For Granted About The United States Economy&#8230;are Not Inevitable At All. Political Choices, He Argues, Not Economic Laws, Have Made The United States A Nation Of The Very Rich, The Very Poor And An Increasingly Fragile Middle Class&#8230;his Claims Are Convincing Not Only Because He Discusses Complex Economic Questions With Rare Lucidity And Skill, But Also Because Of Who He Is. Icon Destroyers Are Most Powerful When They Hail From Within The Priestly Elite&#8230;readers Interested In Understanding Liberalism's Decline And Radical Conservatism's Rise Can Find Better Books. But Those Who Turn To Mr. Krugman To Understand What's Unjust About The United States Economy, And Why It Doesn't Have To Be This Way, Will Be Amply Rewarded. And As Democrats Seek A Rationale Not Merely For Returning To Power, But For Fundamentally Changing&#151;or Changing Back&#151;the Relationship Between America's Government And Its Citizens, Mr. Krugman's Arguments Will Prove Vital In The Months And Years Ahead.</p>

Today's most widely read economist challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. Here he studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has woven together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis. This book, written with Krugman's trademark ability to explain complex issues simply, may transform the debate about American social policy.--From publisher description.

Today's most widely read economist challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. Here he studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," [the author] has woven together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis. [In this book, he] explain[s] complex issues simply, may transform the debate about American social policy

The way we were
The long Gilded Age
The great compression
The politics of the welfare state
The sixties : a troubled prosperity
Movement conservatism
The great divergence
The politics of inequality
Weapons of mass distraction
The new politics of equality
The health care imperative
Confronting inequality
The conscience of a liberal.

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