Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer

The US' money-addicted and change-resistant political system is at the heart of the enormous and rapidly growing income inequality that is undermining US' economic and political stability.

Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, says of Winner-Take-All Politics: "Hacker and Pierson argue strongly that the concentration of income at the top is not just the work of deep economic forces. It is aided and abetted by politicians who favor the very rich or allow policies that once favored the rest of us to erode. Hacker and Pierson look closely, sharply, and entertainingly at the way that interest-group politics and the political power of money have allowed this travesty of democracy to happen. This book is a wake-up call. Read it and wake up.