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The great unraveling : losing our way in the new century
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- ISBN: 9780393058505 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780393326055 (pbk)
- ISBN: 0393058506 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0393326055 (pbk)
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xxix, 426 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Irrational Exuberance -- Seven Habits of Highly Defective Investors -- The Ice Age Cometh -- The Ponzi Paradigm -- Dow Wow, Dow Ow -- Money for Nothing? -- Create and Destroy -- The Pizza Principle -- Damaged by the Dow - 2. Portents Abroad -- Asia: What Went Wrong? -- Why Germany Kant Kompete -- We're Not Japan -- A Leap in the Dark - 3. Greenspanomics -- Don't Ask Alan -- Eleven and Counting -- Herd on the Street -- Living with Bears -- Dubya's Double Dip? -- Mind the Gap -- Passing the Buck -- Stocks and Bombs -- The Vision Thing -- Dealing with W -- My Economic Plan - 4.Crony Capitalism, U.S.A. -- Two, Three, Many? -- Enemies of Reform -- Greed Is Bad -- Flavors of Fraud -- Everyone Is Outraged -- Succeeding in Business -- The Insider Game -- The Outrage Constraint -- Business as Usual -- Fuzzy math - 5. The Bait... -- Oops! He Did It Again -- We're Not Responsible -- Fuzzier and Fuzzier -- Et Tu, Alan? -- Slicing the Salami -- The Money Pit -- The Universal Elixir -- Bad Heir Day -- Pants on Fire - 6. And the Switch -- Hitting the Trifecta -- Our Wretched States -- Bush's Aggressive Accounting -- True Blue Americans -- The Great Evasion -- Springtime for Hitler -- Is the Maestro a Hack?. |
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- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2003 May #2
Never shy to speak up, New York Times columnist Klugman really takes his gloves off here. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2003 October #1
A well-known commentator for the New York Times, Fortune, and Slate, Krugman (economics, Princeton) has collected more than 100 of his columns that ran between 1997 and spring 2003. Following a substantial preface, he presents the pieces, organized into topical sections that include introductions. The result is a coherent whole. For those not familiar with the author's work, this is a scathing (and, to some minds, well placed) collection of critiques, all aimed squarely at the White House and its current administration. He takes on George Bush from all angles: the fuzzy math inherent in the tax cuts to cronyism to the exploitation of 9/11 that furthered his agenda in the Middle East. Enron, the environment, and globalization are other large targets that also receive their due. This is a thought-provoking book, at times enraging or depressing, sometimes even funny (depending on one's political leanings). Highly recommended for all collections.-Susan Hurst, Miami Univ. of Ohio, Oxford Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2003 August #3
This selection of three years of New York Times op-eds by economist and Princeton professor Krugman document his opposition to the governance of George W. Bush and his "bad economics wrapped in the flag." In his introduction, Krugman asserts that Bush is a radical and that America's right wing is "a revolutionary power... a movement whose leaders do not accept the legitimacy of our current political system." The core of the book's 100-plus columns is dedicated to eviscerating Bush's fiscal policies, uncovering the administration's hidden agendas, as well as castigating the media for letting him get away with it. A handful of articles advocate the globalization of free trade. Much of the material will be familiar to Times readers, but reading the items together reveals Krugman's growing anger at the hubris he sees exhibited by the extreme right wing and its seeming defiance of logic. At first, Krugman is a numbers man, methodically parsing the data (demonstrating, for example, how the heartland is not, statistically, more committed to family than people on the coasts), but over time he arrives at the conclusion that "Yes, Virginia, there is a vast right-wing conspiracy" and "it works a lot like a special-interest lobby." Krugman is one of the few commentators able to sound both appalled and reasonable at the same time as he provides an alternate history of the last three years to that penned by conservative pundits. Many readers will find Krugman very persuasive as to how our present government has done us wrong. (Sept.) Forecast: Krugman's book will probably be a standout among books of the liberal backlash due this season. 11-city author tour. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
