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First Published:
Sep 2003, 426 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2004, 480 pages
A galvanizing new work from America's leading economic critic—a book that will set the terms of the political debate for years to come.
No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Times columns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by the Washington Monthly and columnist of the year by Editor and Publisher magazine.
In this long-awaited work containing Krugman's most influential columns along with new commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, how fiscal responsibility collapsed. From his account of the secret history of the California energy crisis to his devastating dissections of dishonesty in the Bush administration, Krugman tells the uncomfortable truth about how the United States lost its way. And he gives us the road map we will need to follow if we are to get the country back on track.
Anthony Lewis
Paul Krugman is the indispensable American columnist, a voice of truth in a political world of lies and calculated injustice. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Lively, lucid, witty, superbly informed, his commentary on the state of the union is required reading. David Levering Lewis, author of W.E.B. DuBois Biography of a Race
Paul Krugman's coruscant book calls for a great revulsion across the land before it is too late. James Carville
If I had a tenth of Paul Krugman's brain and a twentieth of his courage, I'd be the happiest person on the face of the Earth. Molly Ivins
You need to read this book, and when you do, you'll have only one response it's time to get mad. Paul A. Samuelson, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Krugman twice a week and in this coherent sum-up on relevant 2003-2010 economics. Buy. Read. Ponder. Benefit.
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