The wolf at the door
the menace of economic insecurity and how to fight it
- ISBN: 9780674260429
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2021
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 368
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
1. Then and Now
2. Building Blocks of Distributive Politics
3. Good Politics, Wrong Policy
4. The Essential Role of Business
5. Making Work Pay
6. From Unemployment to Reemployment
7. Waiting for Infrastructure
8. What More Is to Be Done?
9. Paying for Change—or Not
10. The Wages of Insecurity
