About ISPS
ISPS Director
Jacob S. Hacker, ISPS Director
Bio:
Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is also Vice President of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a former Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. More…
Recent News:
Washington Post Op-ed by Jacob Hacker, February 13, 2012
A conversation with Jacob Hacker on “Where We Live”, January 31, 2012
Hacker and Pierson’s Winner-Take-All Politics #7 on NYT bestseller list, January 26, 2012
Hacker and Pierson on tax rate for the wealthiest Americans (CNN Opinion), January 25, 2012
Jacob Hacker’s course features prominent visiting lecturers, Jaunary 23, 2012
ESI:
The Economic Security Index (ESI) measures the share of Americans who experience a major drop in their available family income — whether due to a decline in income or a spike in medical spending — and who lack an adequate financial safety net to catch them when they fall. More…
Books:
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon & Schuster, 2010, paperback 2011.
Health At Risk: America’s Ailing Health System and How to Heal It, by Jacob S. Hacker (ed.), Columbia University Press, 2008.
The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement–And How You Can Fight Back, by Jacob S. Hacker, Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Off Center: The Republican Revolution & the Erosion of American Democracy, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Yale University Press, 2005.
The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Health Security, by Jacob S. Hacker, Princeton University Press, 1997, co-winner of the Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon & Schuster, 2010, paperback 2011.
