Paul Krugman – The Conscience of a Liberal

Economist and New York Times columnist Krugman s stimulating manifesto aims to galvanize today s progressives the way Barry Goldwater s The Conscience of a Conservative did right-wingers in 1964. Krugman s great theme is economic equality and the liberal politics that support it. America s post-war middle-class society was not the automatic product of a free-market economy, he writes, but was created… by the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. By strengthening labor unions and taxing the