The Conscience of a Liberal, (Hardcover)

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In The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize laureate in economics, provides a concise economic history of the United States since the 1920s, showing the direct connection between politics and the economy. He challenges the orthodox view that the economy is largely controlled by impe...

from cdogzilla

Enjoyed this much more than "The Great Unravelling."

from dougwood57

Krugman takes the reader on a succinct and readable journey through of US economic history beginning from about 1900 up to the present. His focus is how the average (or more precisely median) worker has fared. Krugman recounts the great economic inequality in the pre-Great Depression era and demo...

from nmele

My book club outvoted me--I didn't want to read this book, because I figured a regular reader of Krugman's columns would not get much from it. I guess I thought this was a compendium of the columns or something.Boy, was I wrong! This is a great book, must reading for anyone who cares about the di...

from austinbarnes

I don't read Krugman's columns much, so didn't have many preconceived expectations. Thought he made a lot of interesting points, in particular about our country's financial history, but thought the evidence for many of his claims seemed sparse. In particular, many of his comments about the Republ...