好书推荐之：《美国怎么了？---一个自由主义者的良知》

1. 书名：《美国怎么了？---一个自由主义者的良知》

英文名：The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right

2. 作者： （美）保罗。克鲁格曼  Paul Krugman

3. 推荐理由：

（1）    回归了经济学的根本使命：平等与正义，而绝非效率。

（2）    对20世纪美国的历史、文化、政治思潮和经济变化做出了较为深刻的阐释。

4. 内容简介：

（1）       The Conscience of a Liberal is a book written by Paul Krugman. It was 24th on the New York Times Best Seller listin November 2007.

（2）       In the book, Paul Krugman studies the past eighty 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.

（3）       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, then widened in the last two decades to levels higher than those in the 1920s. Most economists—including Krugman—have regarded the late-20th century divergence as resulting largely from changes in technology and trade, but Krugman writes that government policies had 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 rebuked the Bush administration for policies that currently widen the gap between the rich and poor. Krugman proposed a "new New Deal", which included placing more emphasis on social and medical programs and less on national defense.The book received praise mixed with criticism of partisanship from outlets such as the New York Review of Books, and was attacked by the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute and conservative groups, who argued it was overly political and weak on economic content.