The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman
The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman
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The Conscience of a Liberal

Author: Paul Krugman

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2007


Synopsis

America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal’s achievements.

Now, the tide may be turning–and in The Conscience of a Liberal Paul Krugman, the world’s most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform.

Krugman ranges over a century of history and shows that neither the American middle-class nor the baby boomers grew up in the increasingly oligarchic nation we have become over the past generation evolved naturally: both were created, to a large extent, by government policies guided by organized political movements.

The Conscience of a Liberal promises to reshape public debate about American social policy and become a touchstone work for an entire generation.

About The Author

Paul Krugman, who was named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine, writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. A winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, the most prized award given to American economists, he also teaches economics and international affairs at Princeton University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on October 02, 2019

It can be interesting--and often a little sad--to look at political books written three presidential elections ago, and see what they predict about the future of America. Here Krugman--less prophetic in sociology than economics--predicted an end to movement conservatism and race-baiting. Now in the......more

Goodreads review by Lucas on January 19, 2018

In this book, Krugman starts to note that, under democracy, in a country with high level of inequality the victory in elections will always belong to the candidate with more progressive views about taxation. That's a result known as "Median voter theorem". But why this doesn't happen in the United S......more

Goodreads review by Will on October 07, 2008

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......more

Goodreads review by sheena d! on December 16, 2009

You want to understand how the two major political parties came to be what they are today. You're curious about how racism and the history of slavery play an uncomfortable but undeniable role in America's resistance to provide her citizens with the care and basic support other wealthy nations deem fu......more

Goodreads review by Pete on March 09, 2008

What's with the well-reasoned arguments and incontrovertible facts, Paul? Enough with the "evidence" and "studies". I mean, why do you want to show that your arguments are correct with actual data. Jeez. But seriously, folks. Krugman writes like the really good teaching economist that he is. This bo......more