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Winner-Take-All PoliticsA ground-breaking book on one of the great economic crises of our time -- why the richest of the rich are getting richer while we're not.Read More
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American Prospect, April 24, 2012
...engaged professionals—notably the economists’ duo of Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, the political--science team of Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, and the journalist Thomas Edsall—had been preparing the case that inequality is the defining issue...
Sun Gazette, April 24, 2012
...Washington made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. I think it can been seen that it is not a level playing field for average people and will never be again. 252 W. Fourth Street , Wil...
New York Review of Books, April 19, 2012
...the action. Or at least acknowledged as factors. The influential books along these lines include Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Off Center of 2005, in which the writers—political scientists—described the process by which a comparatively small and...
New Lenox Patch, April 19, 2012
...the Billionaire' By Thomas Frank ('What's the Matter with Kansas') and 'Winner-Take-All Politics' by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. The meeting will be held in the Frankfort Township Building (Meeting Room - Rear Entrance, 11000 Lincoln Highway...
Waco Tribune Herald, April 15, 2012
...Myra MacPherson’s book “All Governments Lie!”; Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers: The Story of Success”; Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s “Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class”;...
Commonweal, January 30, 2012
...the country’s long-term economic health. In their remarkable 2010 book Winner-Take-All Politics, political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson show in painstaking detail how political decisions over the past three decades have brought us to this...
Syracuse Online, January 4, 2012
...the opening show of Moyers & Company features the work of two noted political scientists, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. Calling it the...
Middle East Online, March 2, 2012
...is the key to reviving the economy. How It Happened The authors of Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, have put together a thesis that tries to tell the great untold story of the last 30 odd years. That is, how did the redistribution...
Workers World Online, March 1, 2012
...data: Half of U.S. poor or low income,” Associated Press, Dec. 15. [ii] Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, “Winner-Take-All Politics” (New York: Simon & Schuster, Kindle Edition, 2010), p. 3. [iii] Perry L. Weed, “Inequality, the Middle Class &...
Consortium News, February 29, 2012
...is the key to reviving the economy. How It Happened The authors of Winner-Take-All Politics , Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, have put together a thesis that tries to tell the great untold story of the last 30 odd years. That is, how did the...
Counter Currents, February 28, 2012
...Republicans attract far more support from lower- and middle-class voters than they would otherwise. (Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson; Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich RicherAnd Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; Simon & Schuster...
Register-Guard, February 28, 2012
...36024 Highway 58; free day care provided; 541-747-8016. Author Reading and Signing — South Eugene High School graduate Paul Pierson, co-author with fellow South Eugene graduate Jacob Hacker of “Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich...
Globe and Mail, February 22, 2012
...of resources is also inequality of political power. In their book Winner Take All Politics, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson describe how the rules of the game, particularly tax policy and other regulations, have responded to the concerns of the super-rich....
Ames Daily Tribune, February 21, 2012
...reasonable, even logical. But it doesn’t work as advertised. In the book “Winner-Take-All Politics,” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson note that between 1979 and 2005, “…, the slice (of all after-tax income gains) enjoyed by the roughly 300,000...
