<![CDATA[The Conscience of a Liberal]]>

false <![CDATA[The Conscience of a Liberal]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181598114m/1169429.jpg 1169429 7 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, "the heir apparent to Galbraith" (Alan Blinder) and, 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. 1110100 1 10 2007 The Conscience of a Liberal total:615|5:183|4:279|3:124|2:20|1:9| 615 2452 1197 161 5 6 false false Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 09 14:52:16 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 24 21:05:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 08:20:28 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 08:21:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 21 21:26:36 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 15:59:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 10:16:03 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 11:11:22 -0700 2008
But seriously, folks. Krugman writes like the really good te...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 09:48:44 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 04 05:13:20 -0700 2008
I love PK; I think he is heaven sent. In fact, he just became my best friend. This book falls just shor...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 19 11:20:50 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 11:34:57 -0800 2008
Krugman's thesis is that, against conventional wisdom, po...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 03 01:42:09 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 08 20:12:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 07:45:04 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 13:31:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 09:59:30 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 09:59:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 27 11:37:54 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 11:38:32 -0800 2008
Krugman, who just garnered a Nobel Prize in Economics this past year, is an unapologetic liberal. Or more specifically, as he likes to re-clarify at the end of his two-hundred-some page treatise, progressive. Coming out just a year before the r...more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 09:47:43 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 10:02:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 14:46:22 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 14:55:37 -0700 2009 The thesis ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 17:12:05 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 20:52:56 -0700 2009
So once I realized this book was primarily about ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 17:21:09 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 22 16:46:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:47:40 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 17:26:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 11:51:03 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 07:24:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 19:10:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:40:48 -0700 2009
According to Krugman, "...political change in the form of rising polarization has been a major cause of rising inequality." The sad story goes like this:

"Over the course of the 1970's, radicals of the right determined to roll back the ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 31 15:27:20 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 16:50:20 -0700 2009
Krugman defines liberal in the final chapter of the book as follows:

1) Expanding the welfare state
2) Equal rights for all (I'm sure he can name some that are more equal than others)...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 20 14:09:54 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:16:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:27:31 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 19:42:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1169429