The Conscience of a Liberal
by:
Paul Krugman (author)
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...
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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
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780393060690 (0393060691)
Publish date: październik 2007 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 296
Edition language: Polski
Krugman is a rare thing: an economist who makes good predictions. He's also one who cares about how economics affects people.I was reading along, getting an overview of income inequality at the turn of the 20th century, and I just couldn't take any more. Over my lifetime it's gotten steadily worse u...
Not sure if this qualifies to go onto my Global Economic Crisis shelf?
Top notch analysis from a brilliant commentator. Does economic inequality lead to political polarization or is it the other way around? Krugman believes that political change ultimately forms economic reality more than the reverse. He says that the middle class of the post war era was a creation of ...
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