All Together Now
Common Sense for a Fair Economy
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2006
164 pages
978-1-57675-948-6 (ISBN)
Description
As the new century unfolds, Americans face prodigious economic and social challenges, yet nothing unifies the various strategies and causes that attempt to meet these challenges. Economist Jared Bernstein believes that frames such as ",the ownership society", stress an ever-shrinking role for government and an ever-increasing risk for individuals, clearly implying ",You're on your own.", Arguing that this shift toward extreme individualism needlessly reduces the country's economic security and the living standards of most families, he describes the political and economic forces that pushed the country away from collective action and exposes the significant societal costs associated with the shift. Most importantly, he presents a new vision, one that applauds individual liberties while emphasizing that such freedoms are best realized with a collectivist approach to public policy. A timely alternative to a go-it-alone society, ",All Together Now shows readers how to tap their ",better selves", to meet the coming challenges as one.
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Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Ready or Not, You're on Your Own
- WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER
- A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE
- CHAPTER ONE Risk Shifting, from Coolidge to Katrina
- AFTER THE STORM: A POTENTIALLY TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT
- THE ATTEMPT TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY: A YOYO CASE STUDY
- OTHER YOYO INITIATIVES: KNOW THEM WHEN YOU SEE THEM
- HOW EVER DID WE GET HERE?
- RISK SHIFT: THE YOYOS' MODUS OPERANDI
- CHAPTER TWO The Economist behind the Curtain
- ASSUME A YOYO ECONOMIST
- FROM KEYNES TO TODAY: A QUICK AND PAINLESS TOUR
- YOYO POLICIES: MYTHS AND FALSE ASSUMPTIONS
- CHAPTER THREE The "All Together Now" Agenda
- YOU PAY THE SAME AMOUNT, BUT YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU CHOOSE
- THOMAS PAINE: WITT'S FOUNDING FATHER
- WELCOME TO WITT WORLD
- CHAPTER FOUR How to Talk to a YOYO
- CAN OUR DIVIDED COUNTRY COME TOGETHER?
- THE OPTIMISM OF WITT, THE PESSIMISM OF YOYO, AND SOME ADVICE FROM TOM PAINE
- NEWS FLASH: YOYOS ARE NOT FISCAL CONSERVATIVES
- IF THE WITT AGENDA IS SO GREAT, WHY DON'T OUR LEADERS SEE IT?
- NOW, WE NEED A MOVEMENT
- CONCLUSION It Takes a Movement
- A WITT DEMO MODEL
- GETTING THE AGENDA OFF THE PAGE
- THE MESSAGE
- THE MESSENGERS
- A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE
- APPENDIX Do YOYO Policies Yield Better Economic Outcomes?
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS
- BE CONNECTED
