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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman
from W. W. Norton

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Congratulations!
  I merely wish to congratulate the Swedish committee-members on having the good sense to award the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics to Paul Krugman. That's almost enough to redeem the Swedes for their egregious error of awarding a previous prize to Milton Friedman, whose unfettered hollow-government capitalism has received its proper thrashing from the current world economic crisis.
  And of course CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Krugman himself. The title of this book is enough in itself to win the Giordano Bruno... more info

• Highly recommended for all Americans, liberal or otherwise
  This is a must-read book for all Americans. Of course it's for liberals who are looking for a deeper understanding of their causes -- the last chapter is essentially a manifesto and call to arms -- but also, perhaps surprisingly, it would be a worthwhile read for moderate Republicans who have been left wondering what the heck happened to their party. I have some conservative-leaning friends who have lamented the way the term "Republican" has become a badge of shame, stating that their families have always... more info

• Krugman Liberal Views
  This book is a good read, but to many would appear to be just a very long version of many an article Mr. Krugman has written for the New York Times. If you like his op-eds, you will likely be a fan of the book. If you are less enthused by his writings, this is probably not the book for you.

• Finally some good news!
  I pretty much read only non-fiction, which is usually very informative but highly depressing. Krugman somehow manages to cover the modern American political state of affairs without depressing me. In fact this book is very hopeful in specific ways and overall quite uplifting.
  In modern American political discourse, it seems common for any statistic that supports an ideological position to be used to further that point of view. Krugman takes the opposite tack: citing relevant and logically coherent... more info

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