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The Conscience of a Liberal
2007 book by Paul Krugman
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.
Predictably irrational
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
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 diminished greatly in mid-century—he refers to this as the "Great Compression"—then widened again, starting in the