Book Talk: Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Professor Jacob Hacker, with commentary by Professor Robert Shiller

Jacob Hacker 
Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Wednesday, December 1, at 5 p.m.  
Labyrinth Books
290 York St., New Haven, CT 

The Lillian Goldman Law Library invites you to a discussion of an important book by Professor Jacob Hacker, with commentary by Professor Robert Shiller.    

Winner Take All Politics is a ground-breaking work demonstrating how the U.S. political system was hijacked by the super-rich over a series of both Democratic and Republican led administrations and showing a path for taking it back.  The authors are lauded for their insights in featured reviews ranging from the New York Times* to Mother Jones, and famed consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren calls this book must reading.  Learn more from the author with commentary provided by Professor Robert Shiller at the upcoming book discussion being held at Labyrinth Books and sponsored by the Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Jacob Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Law, Yale University.

Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University.

 

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