(P/B) CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL

Παρουσίαση

Why has the gap between the poor and the super-rich become such a gulf in the past few decades? Why are so many so disillusioned with the political system? Have we moved from democracy to plutocracy, and can anything be done? Paul Krugman, one of the US's most respected economists and outspoken commentators, traces America's path to its present inequality, showing how an organized, hardline conservative movement took from the country the gains of Roosevelt's New Deal and pushed it back to the age of the robber barons. He also reveals how the right have exploited cultural, racial and economic divisions to their advantage ever since - and not just in America. Krugman argues that the time is now ripe for another era of great reform; that America can be reclaimed from the right. The Conscience of a Liberal lays out his vision of a fairer, more democratic and more equal society. It will become a lodestone work of political thought. (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

THE WAY WE WERE
THE LONG GILDED AGE
THE GREAT COMPRESSION
THE POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE
THE SIXTIES: A TROUBLED PROSPERITY
MOVEMENT CONSERVATISM
THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION
THE NEW POLITICS OF EQUALITY
THE HEALTH CARE IMPERATIVE
CONFRONTING INEQUALITY
THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX