Bill Moyers looks at America’s economic disparity and investigates how it happened and who’s to blame with political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS: HOW WASHINGTON MADE THE RICH RICHER — AND TURNED ITS BACK ON THE MIDDLE CLASS. Through exhaustive research and analysis, Hacker and Pierson — whom Moyers regards as the “Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” of economics — detail important truths behind a 30-year economic assault against the middle class. They argue that America’s vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically engineered. Paul Pierson is an expert in American politics and public policy, comparative political economy and social theory. He is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and 2007-2010 chair of the Berkeley political science department. Jacob S. Hacker has devoted his career to researching and evaluating economic inequality, healthcare and social policy. Hacker is the director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale. MOYERS & COMPANY is a weekly series aimed at helping viewers make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America's strongest thinkers. The program also features Moyers hallmark essays on democracy.
