"Introducing This Blog" - Krugman's introductory blog post

[swag]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/introducing-this-blog/

“I was born in 1953. Like the rest of my generation, I took the America I grew up in for granted – in fact, like many in my generation I railed against the very real injustices of our society, marched against the bombing of Cambodia, went door to door for liberal candidates. It’s only in retrospect that the political and economic environment of my youth stands revealed as a paradise lost, an exceptional episode in our nation’s history.”

That’s the opening paragraph of my new book, The Conscience of a Liberal. It’s a book about what has happened to the America I grew up in and why, a story that I argue revolves around the politics and economics of inequality.

I’ve given this New York Times blog the same name, because the politics and economics of inequality will, I expect, be central to many of the blog posts – although I also expect to be posting on a lot of other issues, from health care to high-speed Internet access, from productivity to poll analysis. Many of the posts will be supplements to my regular columns; I’ll be using this space to present the kind of information I can’t provide on the printed page – especially charts and tables, which are crucial to the way I think about most of the issues I write about.

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[EFerrari]

1. Yahooooooooooo!

:woohoo:

[hang a left]

2. Killer.

And it will be for free!!!

Whoooopeeeee!

[rusty quoin]

5. I like free press

[Kagemusha]

3. Krugman! Free at last!

It is good to be free.

[Waistdeep]

10. His Op-Ed column is free now, too

The Times has ended TimesSelect.

Take a look: http://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/opinion/14krugman.html?hp

[NYC]

4. Recommended.

Thanks.

[bleever]

6. K&R, and

thank you to Paul Krugman.

[IndyOp]

7. Look at this graph - inequality rose during Clinton just about as steeply as during Reagan/Bush

Share of national wealth held by the richest 10% of the population -


This is one of the reasons why I support neither Bill nor Hill.

[KoKo]

8. Very interesting. K&R

[TahitiNut]

9. It depicts the same thing I've repeatedly brought up on DU as measured by the Gini Ratio.

The increasing inequity of income distribution in the US has made us a banana republic - a plantation economic system. The relative virtue of the Gini Ratio is that it's roughly comparable to other countries - it gives us a basis to understand the "birds of a feather" societies.

[DemReadingDU]

11. evening kick