Can I read Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer - and turned its back on the middle class on EtoBox?

Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer - and turned its back on the middle class by Hacker, Jacob S. & Pierson, Paul is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer - and turned its back on the middle class about?

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 safety net and saddling all of us with increased debt and risk? Lots of so-called experts claim to have solved this great mystery, but no one has really gotten to the bottom of it—until now.In their lively and provocative *Winner-Take-All Politics, *renowned political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson demonstrate convincingly that the usual suspects—foreign trade and financial globalization, technological changes in the workplace, increased education at the top—are largely innocent of the c

Who reads Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer - and turned its back on the middle class?

Author

Hacker, Jacob S. & Pierson, Paul

Publisher

Simon & Schustser

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416588702

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, History

Updated

2026-03-24