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I just finished reading this book and the timing could not have been better. With all the talk going about "Fiscal Cliff" etc,. Paul really lays it out to you how policies are made at the highest level. It is always interesting to know about power, money and how they go hand-in-hand.Though you don't have to believe everything he says, it is still a good read.I plan on reading his other works after this.
Krugman is brilliant, his topics are wide-ranging, and his grounding as an economist means that his ideas are supported in such a way that whatever your political views, you can engage with this book in a useful way (unlike, say, Bill O'Reilly's or Al Franken's books). Note of caution to those left of center, and therefore more apt to agree with Krugman: You will be completely outraged.
His columns written while the events of the Bush adminstration were happening were enlightening and explained the mistakes and the consequences of the foolish war in Iraq. Trying to turn Iraq into a Haliburton gas station has blown up and caused this country dearly and we will continue to pay for this terrible mistake for many more years to come.
Top notch writing, insightful, compelling analysis of the economic debacle of the Bush administration, the effects of which we are painfully feeling now and will continue to feel for years to come. Paul Krugman is articulate, well-informed, with a keen eye for seeing through BS. A must-read and still as meaningful today as when it was written.
It scares me a lot. If all this is true and US of A can elect such a president twice, what else is that country capable(sic) of?On a side note, India is not even mentioned once. That's how relevant India is to USA.
Krugman is the most intelligent analyst of economics out there today. He offers, through his columns what is the intent and impact of Bush policies.
An accurate chronicle of the greedy takeover of our democracy with the help of the regressive Republican party and their cocotte leaders George Bush and Dick Cheney and many others.
Still good stuff in here even though some of his compiled columns are more than 15 years old.
For those of you who don't believe that history repeats itself, I defy you to read this book and not draw parallels between the current administration and the last Republican presidential shenanigans, which is when this collection of Paul Krugman's columns was originally written. At certain points, I'm sure that Krugman could easily change the names of the players and simply submit the column again. This, of course, makes this a somewhat depressing, though eye-opening read, particularly if you s...
I tend to be very cautious when reading anything current about politics... especially when it comes from a writer who shares my feelings and views (e.g. Dick Cheney eats babies for breakfast). Krugman is an economist and Op Ed columnist for The New York Times who approaches the state of our country without the hysteria of a Fox News host or any number of Vanity Fair contributors. Occasionally confessing where his theories and forecasts on the economy have gone wrong, he earns points for an open
A collection of Paul Krugman’s NYT articles from 2001-2003. Mostly criticizing President Bush. Since these are articles of the current news, the reading these articles 10 years later allows for a historical look, but the issues and particular details of the article are lost in current memory. Mr. Krugman views President Bush and his administration as a ‘revolutionary’ power that normal reasoning cannot be used to argue against. A revolutionary power in Krugman’s view shuts down all criticism and...
This book was written several years ago but I just read it. It was chilling reading Krugman's economic post-mordems of the Asian financial crisis of the '90s - in hindsight it seems downright prophetic!Krugman is a rare breed, a partisan that is cerebral and makes one think. He's not a knee jerk, mouth foaming, raging partisan that is easy to dismiss. Rather, he is a cool headed economist turned political columnist that has proven to be a particularly sharp and prescient voice in the wilderness
You might think this refers to the GFC (aka the Great Recession in the US). You'd be wrong. It is actually a series of newspaper articles written in 2001 and 2002. Krugman's articles were challenging so many of the US policies that were ultimately to result in the GFC in 2008/9. The recession in 2001 turns out to have been a trial run of the much deeper malaise of 2008, but with many of the same underlying causes. In 1998 when commenting on the debt build up in the US he presciently noted: "ther...
A penetrating look at the partisanship and elitism of the Bush administration by an economist with a rapier like wit (hard to believe, eh?) The mendacity and self aggrandizement of the Bush crew is apparent to all. The sheer hubris is breath taking, something the world hasn't seen since Joseph Goebbels. Alas we all are to blame as we had two chances to stop all this and we did not do it. Let's not make that mistake again, ever.
Krugman is just right on over and over again. The financial mess we find ourselves in was pretty much predicted by him in 2002 to 2004 where he says over and over, the mendacity and malfeasance, the shirking and ducking of accountability, oversight, regulation will lead to a loss of investor confidence, market collapse, etc. Now he has a Nobel Prize and the satisfaction of watching all he said would likely happen, happen.
The format of this book, a collection of newspaper columns, makes it excellent for reading on the bus or the subway. It's also interesting to see what Krugman was writing as events unfolded compared to the conventional wisdom then and now. I wish more of what Krugman predicted so many years ago had not turned out to be right.
An economic view of the imperial presidencyIf you think things are bad in Iraq, you might want to check out how things are going on the home front, economically speaking, that is. What is unraveling is the nation's economic health. What we are looking at, according to Princeton economist and New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman, is not only an emperor without any clothes, but a nation being burdened with so much debt that it is ready to crash upon the rocks of a hard economic reality to c...
Lucid writing that the layman should understand. It is an excellent collection with great organization. It is the intelligent answer to the Republican assertion that no one saw the "great recession" coming.
This books is a collection of articles by Paul Krugman, basically from the end of the Clinton administration to the 2004 presidential elections. While Krugman prefaces each section with a bit of a foreword to provide context, it is not really necessary; this book does an excellent job chronicling the the Bush administration and it's penchant for crony capitalism, manipulation of the media, and the outright lying to the American people. People tend to say now that George W. Bush wasn't a terrible...
It took me five months to read this book. It made me so angry, I could only read a couple essays at a time. The columns of this book were written between 1998 and 2003, when I was graduating from high school, attending college, and generally not giving a rat's ass about politics or the economy. Now, these articles eerily predict and/or mirror what's happening in America today--only today with #45 at the helm, the world is even scarier. Krugman critiques Democrats as well as Republicans, but his