Author(s): Paul R. Krugman

Politics

Ever get the feeling you are being lied to by politicians - again and again? Paul Krugman does. But instead of keeping quiet, the man hailed as 'the most celebrated economist of his generation' has used his position as one of the most controversial and listened-to political commentators in the USA today to expose the financial crimes of the powerful. In this galvanising book he offers the most intelligent, sustained and impassioned critique of Bush's America to date. The Great Unravelling reveals why America's boom economy went bust between 2000 and 2003, how exuberance turned into pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals and how fiscal responsibility collapsed. This blistering work will set the terms of the economic and political debate, in America and around the world, for years to come.