作者吉姆‧馬爾斯，美國資深記者，也是《紐約時報》暢銷書作家，已出版過多部深受歡迎的著作。在這本書里，馬爾斯用調查式的手法，向讀者展現出了真實的一幕——國際經濟、媒體和政治已經被美國全球統治精英操縱著，他們正在締造一個“新世界秩序”，全世界的每一個人都將被裹挾進去。這個新世界秩序，已經滲透進政治、經濟、網絡、醫療、健康等各大領域。它的影響蔓延到了美國社會的各個角落，從我們在雜貨店買的商品，到晚間新聞節目的話題，概不能免。
2008年針對次貸的經濟援助，真相竟然是金錢在全球精英集團之間的流通？美國富有生機的公民意識，早已經成了拙劣的表演？“大制藥集團”是在消滅疾病，還是在生產疾病？為什麼政府要抑制能夠明顯治療癌癥的器械呢？政府會使用微芯片來監視民眾嗎？愛國法案與納粹立法如何相關？
作者在書中給出了系統性的解決方案，並提出了36條具體建議，讓我們重新思考經濟、政治、醫療和未來！本書對中國的經濟、政治、商業發展有重大借鑒意義。
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As a commentator, Krugman has written on a wide range of economic issues including income distribution, taxation, macroeconomics, and international economics. Krugman considers himself a modern liberal, referring to his books, his blog on The New York Times, and his 2007 book The Conscience of a Liberal.[14] His popular commentary has attracted widespread attention and comments, both positive and negative.[15]
Krugman has harshly criticized the Trump administration.[133] He has also remarked several times on how the depth of his disapproval of Trump tempts him to just assume the worst, such that he has to be careful to check his personal beliefs against the weight of evidence. Following Trump's election, Krugman suggested that "we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight." [134] Within two days, he retracted that statement, characterizing it as a lapse in judgment due to having been horrified and depressed by the outcome of the election.[135][136]
In Conscience, Krugman argues that government policies played a much greater role than commonly thought both in reducing inequality in the 1930s through 1970s and in increasing it in the 1980s through the present, and criticizes the Bush administration for implementing policies that Krugman believes widened the gap between the rich and poor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman
The Conscience of a Liberal cover
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| Author | Paul Krugman |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Modern liberalism |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Publication date
| October 1, 2007[1] |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 296 pp |
| ISBN | 0-393-06069-1 |
| OCLC | 154706837 |
| 339.2/20973 22 | |
| LC Class | HC110.I5 K74 2007 |
The Conscience of a Liberal is a 2007 book written by economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. It was 24th on the New York Times Best Seller list in November 2007.[2] The title was used originally in Senator Paul Wellstone's book of the same name in 2001. Wellstone's title was a response to Barry Goldwater's 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative. In the book, Krugman studies the past 80 years of American history in the context of economic inequality. A central theme is the reemergence of both economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Krugman analyzes the causes behind these events and proposes a "new New Deal" for America.[1]
Synopsis[edit]
The book is a history of wealth and income gaps in the US in the 20th century. The book documents that the gap between rich and poor declined greatly in mid-century—he refers to this as the "Great Compression"—then widened again, starting in the 1980s, to levels higher than those in the 1920s. Most economists—including Krugman himself—have regarded the late 20th century divergence as resulting largely from changes in technology and trade, but now Krugman writes—particularly in Chapters 1, 3, and 4—that government policies—particularly the establishment of, and subsequent attacks on, the social safety net or "welfare state"—has played a much greater role both in reducing the gap in the 1930s through 1970s, and in widening it in the 1980s through the present.
He talks about the history of American conservatism, both, in Chapter 2, pre-New Deal conservatism—dominating the period between the American Civil War and the Great Depression (which he calls the "Long Gilded Age")—and, in Chapter 6, modern-day "movement conservatism". He argues—particularly in Chapters 5, 6, and 9—that the subtle exploitation by movement conservatives of racial and cultural resentments through small-government rhetoric (see "dog-whistle politics") and of national-security fears were key in the movement's ability to win national elections—even though its policies concentrating wealth at the top should be deeply unpopular. He talks extensively, in Chapter 6, about William F. Buckley, Jr.'s, Irving Kristol's and Ronald Reagan's role in building the movement—and, in Chapters 7 and 8, about the role of "institutions [particularly labor unions] and norms [particularly corporate policy]"—vis-à-vis government policy—in increasing or decreasing economic inequality. He rebukes the George W. Bush administration for policies that were currently widening the gap between the rich and poor.
Nevertheless, Krugman expresses optimism in Chapter 10 that demographic trends—particularly on race and culture—and what he sees as conservative overreach during the Bush years—are creating a new center-left political environment and are slowly undermining the conservative movement. (He references John Judis and Ruy Texeira's book, The Emerging Democratic Majority.) Krugman proposes, in Chapters 11 and 12, that Democrats propose a "new New Deal", which includes placing more emphasis on social and medical programs—particularly universal health care—and less on national defense.[3]
Finally, in Chapter 13, he talks about what it means to be a "liberal", about the rise in new progressive organizations—which, unlike conservative think tanks, publications and other organizations, are actually more de-centralized and independent-thinking—and how many more people appear to support "liberal" policies than are prepared to use that word to describe themselves. The book concludes with advice that, for the time being, liberals must be partisans until both major political parties accept the rationality of the New Deal.[4]
Reviews and critiques[edit]
The book received praise mixed with criticism of partisanship from outlets such as The New York Review of Books,[5] and was criticized by conservative groups and the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, who argued it was overly political and weak on economic content.[6]
Related information[edit]
The Conscience of a Liberal is also the title of Krugman's economics and politics blog, hosted by The New York Times since 2005.[7]
A paperback edition of The Conscience of a Liberal was released in January 2009.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The Conscience of a Liberal". W. W. Norton & Company. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
- ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction - New York Times". The New York Times. 2007-11-11. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- ^ Oct 17 2007- Krugman On Healthcare, Tax Cuts, Social Security, the Mortgage Crisis and Alan Greenspan Archived 2007-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, in response to Alan Greenspan's Sept 24 appearance Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine with Naomi Klein on Democracy Now!
- ^ Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal, 272-273
- ^ November 22, 2007- Tomansky, Michael The Partisan
- ^ "The Conscience of Paul Krugman - David Gordon - Mises Institute". Mises.org. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
- ^ Paul Krugman:Welcome,The Conscience of a Liberal, September 17, 2005
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近三十年來，美國的政經發展，就是中產階級逐漸消失，少富多貧極端對立，民主與共和兩黨，開始鬥爭尖銳化．並且，少數大財團實際控制美國政治與經濟的走向．
這是美國當代最有影響力的經濟學家克魯格曼教授在『美國怎麼了？』一書，清楚告訴你的．
這是美國當代最有影響力的經濟學家克魯格曼教授在『美國怎麼了？』一書，清楚告訴你的．
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