The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream

By Jacob S. Hacker. 2006

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Classification situations: Life-chances in the neoliberal era (2013, unknown): “We argue that dramatic changes in market organization, triggered by the de-collectivization of social services and risk in the neoliberal era (Hacker, 2008), have both expanded the supply of services and increased the classifying activities of institutions.”
The “sharing” economy: labor, inequality, and social connection on for‐profit platforms (2017, background): “The platforms raise the issue of the restructuring of labor relations in a neoliberal era, particularly in terms of rising precarity and the risk shift from firms to workers (Hacker, 2008; Kalleberg, 2013; Scholz, 2013; Standing, 2011).”
THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2015, background): “Many Americans—nearly a hundred million—are living precariously near the poverty line and experiencing ongoing challenges balancing their finances (Hacker, 2006; U.S. Census Bureau, n.d.).”
The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food? (2009, background): “These assertions illustrate the execution of an organized corporate strategy that shifts responsibility from the parties who make and market products to those who use them (Hacker 2006).”
Financialization and Economic Development: A Debate on the Social Efficiency of Modern Finance (2018, methodology): “This is illustrated by Razmig Keucheyan’s analysis of what he labels (using a French term) the assurantialisation of climate risk, which follows from the deliberate ‘privatization of risk’: the elimination of the protection previously provided by governments against personal misfortune, in favour of”
Uncertainty and Narratives of the Future: A Theoretical Framework for Contemporary Fertility (2020, background): “Although inequality and uncertainty in the economic context are not the same thing, they are strongly interwoven (Hacker 2019).”