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Beschreibung
Well before the late-2000s financial crisis, economic risk was shifting from the broad shoulders of government and business onto the fragile backs of American families. In this fully revised second edition, Jacob Hacker presents startling new evidence of Americans' increasing insecurity in the post-financial crash era and compelling new ideas to restore the American Dream.
Well before the late-2000s financial crisis, economic risk was shifting from the broad shoulders of government and business onto the fragile backs of American families. In this fully revised second edition, Jacob Hacker presents startling new evidence of Americans' increasing insecurity in the post-financial crash era and compelling new ideas to restore the American Dream.
Über den Autor
Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. A Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, he is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, The Divided Welfare State, and, with Paul Pierson, of American Amnesia: The Forgotten Roots of Our Prosperity; Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richerand Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; 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, Connecticut.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: On the Edge

  • 1. The New Economic Insecurity

  • 2. Risking It All

  • 3. Risky Jobs

  • 4. Risky Families

  • 5. Risky Retirement

  • 6. Risky Health Care

  • Conclusion: Securing the Future

  • Acknowledgments

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190844141
ISBN-10: 0190844140
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hacker, Jacob S.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Jacob S. Hacker
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2019
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 121048108