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Winner-Take-All Politics How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

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ISBN-10: 1416588701

ISBN-13: 9781416588702

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

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A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich. We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current economic crisis, even as the rest of Americans have continued to fall behind. Why do the "haveit- alls" have so much more? And how have they managed to restructure the economy to reap the lion's share of the gains and shift the costs of their new economic playground downward, tearing new holes in the…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jacob Hacker is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he heads the Center on Health and Economic Security at the Boalt Law School. A frequent media commentator and author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, he is the author of four books, most recently The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream.Contributors: Jacob Hacker: "Health Insecurity and the Middle Class"; Elizabeth McGlynn and David Meltzer: "Health Quality"; Brandon McKelvey and Jill Quadagno: "The Transformation of American Health Insurance"; Katherine Swartz: "The Uninsured and Underinsured"; Elizabeth Warren: "Medical Bankruptcy"

Introduction: The Thirty-Year War
The Puzzling Politics of Winner-Take-All
The Winner-Take-All Economy
How the Winner-Take-All Economy Was Made
A Brief History of Democratic Capitalism
The Rise of Winner-Take-All Politics
The Unseen Revolution of the 1970s
The Politics of Organized Combat
The Middle Goes Missing
Winner-Take-All Politics
A Tale of Two Parties
Building a Bridge to the Nineteenth Century
Democrats Climb Aboard
Battle Royale
Conclusion: Beating Winner-Take-All
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Authors