Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class, by Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time- the growing inequality of incomes and how the US political system has allowed this to happen.

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Robert J Shiller, Economist

“Winner-Take-All Politics puts complex economic ideas into language that we understand. It takes a fresh look at the increase in inequality over the last thirty to forty years.”

Keith Ellison, Lawyer

“The political system [in America] works well for those who have a lot of money but poorly for most others. It lays out a theory as to why we have the tax policy we have, and why income shares have gotten more unequal over the last two decades.”

Michael Kazin, Historian

“The more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve come to appreciate some of their conceptual insights. The American political system is resistant to change in a very literal sense. It’s just difficult to pass laws. We have many different branches of government, and a lot of diffusion of power.”

Matthew Yglesias, Political Commentator