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 Richer--and 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.
Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Politics in Time, Dismantling the Welfare State?, and (with Jacob S. Hacker), American Amnesia: The Forgotten Roots of Our Prosperity; Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Berkeley, California.
American Amnesia provides chapter and verse on why the public has
good reason to be angry..."--The New York Times
"The best business book of the year on the economy."--Brad DeLong,
strategy+business
"This is a fascinating and much-needed book. America once invented
universal public education and sharply progressive taxation of
income and inherited wealth, and has shown to the world that strong
government and efficient markets are complementary--not
substitutes. But since 1980 a new wave of anti-governmentideology
has prospered, and is about to make America more unequal
andplutocratic than Europe on the eve of World War I. If you want
to understandwhy this great amnesia occurred, and how it can be
reversed, read this book!"--Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in
the Twenty-First Century
If you are curious about why our infrastructure, our roads and
bridges and water systems, is falling apart--then read American
Amnesia. Curious about why the U.S. spends almost 18 percent of our
GDP on medical care, but has health outcomes that are at levels of
many developing countries--then read American Amnesia."--Inside
Higher Ed
In this lively, engaging, and persuasive book, Hacker and Pierson
explain how much of our health and prosperity rests on what
governments have done. American Amnesia will help slow the
intellectual pendulum that is currently swinging towards ananarchic
libertarianism that threatens more than a century of American
progress."--Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for
Economics in 2015
Progress and prosperity in the United States, they demonstrate,
have rested in no small measure on a constructive relationship
between an effective public authority and dynamic private markets.
We are now paying a terrible price for "forgetting this essential
truth."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
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