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Jacob S. Hacker

Jacob S. Hacker
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Jacob S. Hacker

Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. A Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., he is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (a New York Times 'editors' choice), The Divided Welfare State, and, with Paul Pierson, of 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, CT.

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Winner-Take-All Politics is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 15, 2011
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New York Times, August 3, 2012
...He holds a commanding position in an intellectual insurgency challenging the dominant economic orthodoxy. Among his allies are Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (the authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its...
New York Times, August 3, 2012
...He holds a commanding position in an intellectual insurgency challenging the dominant economic orthodoxy. Among his allies are Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (the authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its...
The Nation, July 10, 2012
...All this and I still have a third of the book to go! Gizelle Lugo, Queens, NY , by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson Among my parting gifts from my internship at Simon & Schuster is a host of books that I hope to get to before the year...
Lebanon Valley College, June 5, 2012
...Born 10 B.C. and Deified A.D. 54" July 23: Michael Schroeder, assistant professor of history, reviews Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" July 30:...
IR On The Net, November 10, 2012
...at 740 Park Avenue for two years, but is now employed at a different elite Manhattan apartment building. Jacob S. Hacker is the co -author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class....
New Statesman, November 8, 2012
...religious fear that liberal policy degrades the moral fibre of the nation. Greenberg’s analysis is supported by Jacob S Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale University and an important intellectual influence among those in Ed Miliband’s...
IR On The Net, October 9, 2012
...at 740 Park Avenue for two years, but is now employed at a different elite Manhattan apartment building. Jacob S. Hacker is the co -author of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class....
Sightline Daily, October 5, 2012
...minute that they are spending exposed to political advertisements this election season to reading just one book instead: Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Winner-Take-All Politics : How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the...
Clinton Patch, September 20, 2012
...pm Energy Assistance Event- CRT Energy Blitz Wed, Oct 3, 9:00 am–4:00 pm SLDW Presents Author Jacob S. Hacker Thu, Oct 4, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm An Introduction to the Universe Around Us Thu, Oct 11, 6:30 pm Laughter is the Breast Medicine Tue,...
Clinton Patch, September 19, 2012
...2012 Time: 7:00 pm–8:30 pm The Shoreline League of Democratic Women (SLDW) will host guest speaker Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D. on Thursday evening, October 4, at 7 PM at the Henry Carter Hull Library in Clinton, CT. This event is free and open to the...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, September 6, 2012
...Winner-Take-All Politics: how Washington made the rich richer — and turned its back on the middle class,” by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Contact Georgine Olson at 459-1063 or golson@fnsblibrary.us FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL LITERARY CLASS...