Description
About the Author
Jacob S. Hacker is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of The Divided Welfare State and The Road to Nowhere and, and most recently, co-author of Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. A frequent commentator on NPR, PBS, and CNN, Hacker has written for The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.
Reviews
As Jacob Hacker argues persuasively in The Great Risk Shift, America's middle class finds itself living with far more risk and income volatility than it did a generation ago. * Chris Hayes, The Nation *
The essential policy book of the year. * Washington Post *
Provocative and worth reading. * New York Times *
Hacker offers up a new foundation for economic security. This is an important book. * Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor *
Provides a fresh diagnosis of a familiar complex of problems from structural unemployment to the erosion of retirement plans you can retire on. * The Atlantic *
[This] book deserves the widest possible audience, for having nailed the most powerful and underappreciated economic trend of our era, thereby inviting a discussion of the political opportunities. * Robert Kuttner, American Prospect *
A brilliant diagnosis of how the American dream has dissolved, and what might be done to resurrect it.With cool intelligence but also great compassion, Jacob Hacker shows how both corporate and governmental safety nets have been systematically dismantled, leaving average Americans at the mercy of an increasingly risky global economy. * Charles Ferguson, Director of Inside Job *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190844141
Author Jacob Hacker
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 234mm * 23mm