The wolf at the door : the menace of economic insecurity and how to fight it / Ian Shapiro, Michael J. Graetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graetz, Michael J., Author.

Shapiro, Ian, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic security--United States.

Economic security.

United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

United States.

United States--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The acclaimed authors of Death by a Thousand Cuts argue that Americans care less about inequality than about their own insecurity. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro propose realistic policies and strategies to make lives and communities more secure. This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and deregulation. Others on the left rage against the top 1 percent and demand wholesale economic change. Voices on both sides line up against globalization: restrict trade to protect jobs. In The Wolf at the Door, two leading political analysts argue that these views are badly mistaken. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro focus on what really worries people: not what the rich are making but rather their own insecurity and that of people close to them. Americans are concerned about losing what they have, whether jobs, status, or safe communities. They fear the wolf at the door. The solution is not protectionism or class warfare but a return to the hard work of building coalitions around realistic goals and pursuing them doggedly through the political system. This, Graetz and Shapiro explain, is how earlier reformers achieved meaningful changes, from the abolition of the slave trade to civil rights legislation. The authors make substantial recommendations for increasing jobs, improving wages, protecting families suffering from unemployment, and providing better health insurance and child care, and they guide us through the strategies needed to enact change. These are achievable reforms that would make Americans more secure. The Wolf at the Door is one of those rare books that not only diagnose our problems but also show us how we can address them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. Then and Now

CHAPTER TWO. Building Blocks of Distributive Politics

CHAPTER THREE. Good Politics, Wrong Policy

CHAPTER FOUR. The Essential Role of Business

CHAPTER FIVE. Making Work Pay

CHAPTER SIX. From Unemployment to Reemployment

CHAPTER SEVEN. Waiting for Infrastructure

CHAPTER EIGHT. What More Is to Be Done?

CHAPTER NINE. Paying for Change—or Not

CHAPTER TEN. The Wages of Insecurity

GLOSSARY

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

9780674246997

0674246993

9780674247024

0674247027

OCLC:

1135585820