
American Amnesia
How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
Jacob S. Hacker(Author)
Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
Published on 14. February 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-4516-6783-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the past, government and business were as much partners as rivals, resulting in broad-based growth and healthy social development. But advocates of anti-government market fundamentalism are intent on scrapping the instrument of nearly a century of unprecedented economic and social progress. Hacker and Pierson examine why what's good for American business elites and what's good for Americans have become misaligned.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4516-6783-7 (9781451667837)
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Jacob S. Hacker | Paul Pierson
American Amnesia
How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
E-Book
03/2016
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€15.81
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Person
Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. A Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, he is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, The Divided Welfare State, and, with Paul Pierson, of American Amnesia: The Forgotten Roots of Our Prosperity; Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. He has appeared recently on The NewsHour, MSNBC, All Things Considered, and Marketplace. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.