Jacob Hacker
Jacob Hacker | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
Spouse | Oona A. Hathaway |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University, Yale University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political Science |
Sub-discipline | Health care policy |
Institutions | New America, Yale University |
Jacob Stewart Hacker (born 1971) is an American professor and political scientist. He is the director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and a professor of political science at Yale University. Hacker has written works on social policy, health care reform, and economic insecurity in the United States.[1][2]
Early life and education
Hacker was born and raised in
Career
Hacker is a media contributor and has testified before the United States Congress. He was widely recognized as a contributor to the health care plans for three of the leading Democratic candidates — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards — in the presidential election of 2008.[3] Hacker's plan, Health Care for America, is outlined in a report for the Economic Policy Institute. It proposes providing health care for uninsured or under-insured Americans by requiring employers to either provide insurance to their workers or enroll them in a new, publicly overseen insurance pool. People in this pool could choose either a public plan modeled after Medicare or from regulated private plans.
Hacker's work with the international think tank
Hacker was a fellow at New America in 1999 and 2002. In 2007 he co-chaired the National Academy of Social Insurance's conference, "For the Common Good," and oversees a Social Science Research Council project on the "privatization of risk."
Hacker's 2010 book, the New York Times bestseller
Their 2016 book American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper argues for the restoration and reinvigoration of the United States mixed economy.
In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]
The Economic Security Index (ESI)
In July 2010 the Economic Security Index was launched. Developed by Hacker and a multi-disciplinary research team with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the ESI measures the share of Americans who experience at least a 25 percent decline in their income from one year to the next and who lack an adequate financial safety net to replace this lost income.
Personal life
Hacker is married to Oona A. Hathaway, a Professor of Law at Yale University and former Supreme Court clerk to Sandra Day O'Connor.[7]
Works
- Let them eat Tweets : how the right rules in an age of extreme inequality, with ISBN 9781631496844
- American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper. with ISBN 978-1-4516-6782-0.)
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- The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream. ISBN 978-0-19-533534-7.
- The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-517950-7.[8]
- Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. with Paul Pierson. ISBN 978-0-300-10870-5.)
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- The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President's Clinton's Plan for Health Security. ISBN 978-0-691-04423-1.
See also
- Pre-distribution
- Policy Network
References
- ^ a b "Jacob Hacker". Political Science. Yale University. August 12, 2010. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
- ^ "2020 Ball Award Recipient Profile: Jacob Hacker | National Academy of Social Insurance". www.nasi.org. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
- NPR News, February 22, 2008
- ^ "BBC News". The BBC. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
- ^ "Pre-distribution and the crisis in living standards". Policy Network. Archived from the original on 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ "Five professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
- ISBN 978-0-521-01328-4.
- New York Times Book Review. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
External links
- Jacob Hacker on his new book Winner-Take-All Politics - video interview by Democracy Now!