All Together Now

Common Sense for a Fair Economy
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57675-387-3
Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

All Together Now presents an alternative vision, one which applauds individual freedom but emphasizes such freedoms are best realised with a more collectivist approach to public policy. The message is simple: we’re all in this together.Bernstein’s book walks the reader though the history of our shift toward extreme individualism. His chapters describe the political and economic forces that have pushed us away from more collective thinking and action, and they elaborate the problems this transition has engendered. Having exposed the significant societal costs associated with the shift, the book introduces a new way of thinking about government and social policy (or, more accurately, re-introduces an old way): the power of collective action. In these pages, readers will find a welcome alternative, a new way to tap our “better selves” to meet the challenges we all face—together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, Jared

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Ready or Not, You’re On Your Own
- Chapter 1: Risk Shifting From Coolidge to Katrina
- Chapter 2: The Economist Behind the Curtain

- Chapter 3: The “All Together Now” Plan
- Chapter 4: How to Talk to a YOYO
- Conclusion: It Takes a Movement
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Jared Bernstein is senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC. His areas of research include income and wage inequality, technology’s impact on wages and employment, low-wage labour markets and poverty, minimum wage analysis, and international comparisons. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labour. He has published extensively in popular and academic journals, including The American Prospect and Research in Economics and Statistics, and is the co-author of seven editions of The State of Working America. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Columbia University and lives in Washington, DC.