Jacob Hacker
@jacob_s_hacker
Professor of Political Science @Yale, Fellow @ISPSYale, co-author "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality;" jacobhacker.com
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22-02-2020 22:35:11
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Amazing postdoc opportunity!! Folks interested in #LPE, you will love this *new* postdoc opp Yale University affiliated with #APEX (the American Political Economy eXchange) at the Yale ISPS with Jacob Hacker. Reviewing applications in mid-March. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/140859
Announcing new Yale University postdoc, affiliated with APEX (American Political Economy eXchange), housed at Yale ISPS, and affiliated with APSA APE | @CAPE-team.bksy.social. For APE researchers eager to advance their own work and help develop new programming and opportunities. Apply-> apply.interfolio.com/140859
Join us this Monday, April 1 at 7pm ET for a free, virtual launch of Can the Democrats Win? with Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson and Lily Geismer. Plus, get a discount on the issue when you register today. secure.givelively.org/event/boston-c…
Hope you can make this Boston Review virtual event on the future of the Democratic Party with Paul Pierson, Lily Geismer, Joshua Cohen, and me! April 1 (no joke!) at 7pm ET. Register 👇secure.givelively.org/event/boston-c…
New WSJ piece with Jon Cohen of American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Economic measurements like GDP and the Dow don’t capture what life is like for real Americans. A new metric called the CORE Score (corescore.us) offers a better alternative wsj.com/economy/gdp-an… via The Wall Street Journal
Last call! Submit your abstracts on or before Friday (5/3) for CAPE's 2024 Summer Research Conference (7/29-31) at [email protected]! APSA APE | @CAPE-team.bksy.social
Nominate scholars for the APSA APE | @CAPE-team.bksy.social section awards! Deadline is May 17: (1) Emerging Scholar in American Political Economy (2) Best Dissertation on American Political Economy (3) Best Paper on American Political Economy Info and nominations at apsanet.org/section54
As Paul Pierson & I argue in New York Times Opinion today, the U.S. is on course for an epochal debate over future policy priorities: Should the enormous, ineffective and inequality-abetting Trump tax cuts of 2017 be extended past their scheduled expiration in 2025? nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opi…
Few Americans seem to understand the huge stakes of the 2024 election for the basic public policies that shape their lives — especially on taxes, say Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. Read: nyti.ms/3X1jvfE
We’re joined by Jacob Hacker discussing his article at The NYT with Paul Pierson, “What Kind of Country Do You Want? Start With Taxes.” on.soundcloud.com/5Avw865rahYgbw…
NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | Michel Paradis - The 80th Anniversary of D-Day | Lindsay Owens - How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | Jacob Hacker - As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts, Biden Needs to Make Them Pay Up
Great new Wall Street Journal Opinion piece by Alan Blinder on the need for more of what I've called “predistribution." Non-affluent workers shouldn't have to rely solely on a politically vulnerable safety net. Make the market work better for them in the first place! wsj.com/articles/shore…
Great thread by Greg Sargent. Democratic Party has been acting like a party. Both progressive & moderate Ds believe in active governance (not true on GOP right). There’s also recognition that Ds need to win moderate seats to hold power. And Trump helps unify them too.
For those attending APSA meeting and in town on Friday morning, please swing by the hackathon that Kathy Cramer and I are leading utilizing a new American Academy of Arts & Sciences dataset on Americans’ well-being. We’ll have breakfast and coffee from 8am in PCC 201B. Hope to see you there!