Public Option - How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality

A solution to inequalities-in health care, retirement, education, recreation, communication-is as close as the public library, post office, community pool, or elementary school. The Public Option shows that opportunities to develop reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options are all around us.

About the author

Ganesh Sitaraman is Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law, and Director of the Program in Law and Government at Vanderbilt Law School. He is a columnist for Guardian US and has been a longtime advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, serving as her policy director and senior counsel. He is the author of The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic, a New York Times Notable Book.Anne L. Alstott is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at Yale Law School and author of A New Deal for Old Age, among other books. She has won her school’s top teaching award five times in her twenty-six-year career. She has written or cowritten pieces for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and Slate, and has appeared on the public radio programs Marketplace and On Point.

Summary

A solution to inequalities—in health care, retirement, education, recreation, communication—is as close as the public library, post office, community pool, or elementary school. The Public Option shows that opportunities to develop reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options are all around us.

Product details

• Authors: Anne L Alstott, Anne L. Alstott, Alstott Anne L., Ganesh Sitaraman, Ganesh Alstott Sitaraman, Sitaraman Ganesh
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780674987333
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98733-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Social groups, Political science & theory, Public Administration, Political Economy, Political science and theory, Social groups, communities and identities