Jonathan Chait is a senior editor of the New Republic and a widely published political columnist. His first book, The Big Con, is a highly readable denunciation of the Bush administration’s economic programs. Reading it, in fact, puts one in a rather good mood, for with the president’s current approval rating lower than that of any president tracked, and with local Republic (...)
March 14, 2008
Books
Measuring Inequality
The Big ConThe True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot EconomicsJonathan ChaitHoughton Mifflin Company, $25, 304 pp.
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