Paul Pierson

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About The Author

Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Politics in Time, Dismantling the Welfare State?, and (with Jacob S. Hacker), American Amnesia: The Forgotten Roots of Our Prosperity; Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Books by Paul Pierson

American Amnesia

How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

By Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.
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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
This acclaimed paradigm-shifting work identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crises of our time—the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.

A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behin...
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