Paul Pierson's Books
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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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ZNet, September 12, 2012
...rhetoric and a set of policy prescriptions that were largely unthreatening to the business community.” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon...
ZNet, September 12, 2012
...rhetoric and a set of policy prescriptions that were largely unthreatening to the business community.” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon...
Newsvine, September 7, 2012
...Five years after the onset of the financial crisis that badly damaged the US economy, the nation remains mired in chronic joblessness. The unemployment rate, stubbornly above 8 percent, actually makes the situation look better than it is. Many millions...
ZNet, September 7, 2012
...of the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. But, as political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson noted in their important 2010 book Winner Take All Politics: ‘the top 1 percent, while seemingly an exclusive group, is much...
Toronto Star Online, August 12, 2012
...growing band of intellectual heavyweights — Lawrence Lessig and Michael Sandel of Harvard University, Jacob Hacker at Yale, Paul Pierson at the University of California, Berkeley, Nouriel Roubini of New York University, to name a few — is echoing...
Boston IMC, August 3, 2012
...the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" (2010), Professors Jacob Hacker (Yale) and Paul Pierson (U.C. Berkeley) argued that changing tax rates has been a major factor underlying growing inequality. Former New York Times columnist...
New York Times, August 3, 2012
...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 Back on the Middle...
Record Searchlight, January 18, 2013
...happened. The second and more recent book (2010) is titled "Winner-Take-All Politics," written by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. This book, a real barn-burner, should be read by everyone. Hacker and Pierson first provide the evidence to show, as have...
Fast Company, January 10, 2013
...plenty of individuals here who contribute to the quality of our design product. For example, our new partner Paul Pierson represents an exciting generational shift for us and there will be others like him in the future. A time might come when our name...
Daily Beast, January 4, 2013
...willingness to blink on taxes is neat, but all we're seeing again and again is confirmation of Paul Pierson's thesis from Dismantling the Welfare State?, namely that dismantling the welfare state is incredibly difficult...
Sentinel Tribune, December 29, 2012
...in Perrysburg Municipal Court Friday fell ill and was taken to a local hospital. The court reported that Paul Pierson III, 47, Ada, was appearing before Judge Dwight Osterud just before 11 a.m. when he "felt faint" and was taken to St. Luke's Hospital...
National Union of Public & General Employees, December 18, 2012
...also play a significant political role in the distribution of incomes. Two American political scientists, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, in their recent book, Winner-Take-All Politics show how strong unions are consistently associated with low levels of...
Fast Company, December 5, 2012
...it’s exhausting, but staying off balance builds different muscles.” The two have recently added a younger partner, Paul Pierson, who brings the firm a fresher perspective on technology and speed. “Right now, a good 70-75% of our business is...
American Prospect, December 4, 2012
...This piece is part of the Prospect' s series on progressives' strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here . Corporate domination of the media, of politics, and of the workplace has thrown American society out of whack....
