Winner-take-all Politics
How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Published on 15. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-4165-8870-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this groundbreaking book on one of the world's greatest economic crises, Hacker and Pierson explain why the richest of the rich are getting richer while the rest of the world isn't.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Figures
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4165-8870-2 (9781416588702)
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Jacob S. Hacker | Paul Pierson
Winner-Take-All Politics
How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
E-Book
09/2010
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€13.84
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Persons
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.