TY - BOOK AU - Krugman,Paul R. TI - The conscience of a liberal SN - 9780393060690 (hardcover) AV - HC110.I5 K74 2007 U1 - 320.51 KRU 22nd ed. PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - Income distribution KW - United States KW - Equality KW - Economic conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Social policy N1 - Includes bibliographical and index; 9; 12 N2 - Today's most widely read economist challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. Here he studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has woven together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007034334.html ER -