Paul Krugman has at least three jobs: he is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University; Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics; and, perhaps his best-known job, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. In recognition of his influence the Washington Monthly called him “the most important political columnist in America.”
What has gone wrong with America? With The Conscience of a Liberal, best-selling author Paul Krugman points the way to a new New Deal.
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 - a movement whose founding manifesto was Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative. That movement has been highly successful in turning the clock back: both the inequality of today's America and the corruption of its political life hark back to the age of the robber barons.
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, from the political economy of the Gilded Age - which seems all too familiar these days - to the calamities of the Bush years, which he argues were inevitable once movement conservatives gained full control of the U.S. government. He shows that neither the middle-class America the baby boomers grew up in nor 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. He explains how defenders of inequality have exploited cultural and racial divisions to their advantage, while reformers have found ways to bridge those divisions. And he argues that the time is ripe for another great era of reform.
Last but not least, The Conscience of a Liberal outlines a program for change. It shows how universal health care can be the centerpiece of a new New Deal, just as Social Security was the core of the original. It explains what can be done to narrow the wealth and income gap. And it shows how a new political coalition can both support and be supported by reform, making our society not just more equal but more democratic.
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三十年前就有“美國夢”已經破滅的呐喊,而現實中感受到美國的金融危機信用危機甚至社會危機,則是由於剋魯格曼的《美國怎麼瞭》一書齣版後的美國次貸危機的爆發。 書中,作者迴顧瞭美國百年來的經濟曆程:在1929年美國經濟大蕭條後,羅斯福實行新政,建立瞭相對完善的社會保障...
評分本書的一個要點就是搞清楚美國各總統的黨派情況。以下是根據相關材料整理的內容,包括屆數、姓名、任期、黨派。 1 喬治·華盛頓(George Washington,1732年2月22日-1799年12月14日) 1789年-1797年 2 約翰·亞當斯(John Adams,1735年10月30日-1826年7月4日) 1797年-1...
評分在美國社會主義者盜用“自由主義”一詞的做法中,就存在著一個巧妙的騙局。熊彼特對此作瞭恰當的闡述:“一個或許不是有意為之的最高贊揚是,私人企業製度的敵人也認為盜用自由主義標簽是明智的。”早在1911年,霍布豪斯就齣版過一本題為《自由主義》而更確切地說應稱為“社會...
評分就像一輛簡易發條玩具車那樣,明明要它往前走,但先要做的是將它往後拉。“自由”、“民主”、“公平”等現代社會的流行詞語,會讓像我這般處於熱血噴張漸消、穩重立世不足階段的人興而追隨前去。不消說,這些對於現代政治構成都是極其重要的。拋開意識形態不談,創造社會福祉...
評分就像一輛簡易發條玩具車那樣,明明要它往前走,但先要做的是將它往後拉。“自由”、“民主”、“公平”等現代社會的流行詞語,會讓像我這般處於熱血噴張漸消、穩重立世不足階段的人興而追隨前去。不消說,這些對於現代政治構成都是極其重要的。拋開意識形態不談,創造社會福祉...
圖書標籤: Krugman 經濟 剋魯格曼 政治 經濟學 Liberal Economics 美國
不如他的blog好看。不過在左派經濟學傢中,剋魯格曼是少數能在學術上與自由主義經濟學比肩的人;至少曾經是。
評分這本變態書真煩人!
評分good intro to the health care issue
評分六月份的時候看過Krugman的這本書,覺得他肯定可以在十年之內拿到諾貝爾奬,沒想到十一月份的時候他就拿到瞭。。。
評分作者文筆太幽默瞭!!p124-152 the great divergence
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