Strategies to Fight Economic Insecurity
In their new book The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law Emeritus Michael J. Graetz and Yale University Sterling Professor of Political Science Ian Shapiro ’87 trace the sources of insecurity in America and describe potentially effective and politically viable policy recommendations to restore economic security.
At the heart of The Wolf at the Door is a framework for a successful distributive politics, written to inform lawmakers, politicians, and activists. Graetz and Shapiro propose substantive ideas to reward work, increase wages, increase jobs, protect families suffering from unemployment, and provide health insurance and childcare. Their suggestions range from expanding the earned income tax credit to broadening medical insurance coverage to increasing private-public partnerships for infrastructure projects. With insight and clarity, Graetz and Shapiro provide a compelling analysis of the crisis and the potential tools at policymakers’s disposal, just before the 2020 elections.