The Death Of Horatio Alger Analysis

In reading this article, titled "The Death of Horatio Alger" written by Paul Krugman, I found the main focus was Krugman’s idea based off of the value of the article, “Waking Up From the American Dream.” The author communicates the suggestion of the American Dream dying. This would infer Americans would lose the capability for improvement economically different from how it used to be. Horatio Alger was a well proclaimed self-made man who received all the glory of an American dream through hard work. Krugman however, argues regardless of hard work, the hungriness for money is what has caused a stagnant shift in the economic society today, making the stretch for the American Dream