内容简介
Inthis"clear,provocative"(BostonGlobe)NewYorkTimesbestseller,PaulKrugman,today'smostwidelyreadeconomist,examinesthepasteightyyearsofAmericanhistory,fromthereformsthattamedtheharshinequalityoftheGildedAgeandthe1920stotheunravelingofthatachievementandthereemergenceofimmenseeconomicandpoliticalinequalitysincethe1970s.Seekingtounderstandbothwhathappenedtomiddle-classAmericaandwhatitwilltaketoachievea"newNewDeal,"Krugmanhascreatedhisfinestbooktodate,a"stimulatingmanifesto"offering"acompellinghistoricaldefenseofliberalismandaclarioncallforAmericanstoretakecontroloftheireconomicdestiny".