ID3 TALB h Winner-Take-All Politics - How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle ClassTPE1 / Jacob S. Hacker/Paul Pierson/John Allen NelsonTCOP Tantor MediaTCON NonfictionTIT2 # Winner-Take-All Politics - Part 01TRCK 1COMM ENG
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time—-the growing inequality 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 fallen behind. Why do the "have-it-alls" have so much more? 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 that the usual suspects—-foreign trade and financial globalization, technological changes in the workplace, increased education at the top—-are largely innocent of the charges against them. Instead,...TLEN 000000120033Pd i 4 U~@ 8y#g$)d >@ &z}pm]jfF&|^Ý}> e\ *[4Cg0Pg%ˆͭVU&kHA\OiM52t"2gp]jCRdV i 4 0( Z-F^ޒY0NY AYY&g(^LV0^HE4N̯vXu(r/".̅vcn~yyNOij͑I\ll@,LVNHDP}Cp]U%lRd i ``0 4 hS]wxWꌴwR]i[^-LAMEMR"DmY) si|upAT:?#VS^Pw#UG?%d\LԃPD@q̅yQ!˧ï*"AC)1hҌȧ 33a4vRd