Linked with Jacob S. Hacker – USA, and with Economic risk has shifted … .
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Publications: about THE PRIVATISATION OF RISK:
- Catastrophic Risks: The need for new tools, financial instruments and institutions, by Graciela Chichilnisky;
- The Privatization of Risk and the Growing Economic Insecurity of Americans, by Jacob Hacker;
- Rising Angst? Change and Stability in Perceptions of Economic Insecurity, by Elisabeth Jacobs; Kathryn Newman;
- Identifying and Managing Household Risk: Lessons from Bankruptcy, by Melissa Jacoby;
- Risk versus Uncertainty: Frank Knight’s “Brute” Facts of Economic Life, by William Janeway;
- The Rising Risks of Rising Economic Inequality: Do Americans Care? By Leslie McCall;
- Rewriting the Rules: Families, Money and Risk, By Elizabeth Warren.
About us: Communicating necessary knowledge to the public—necessary for citizens to understand their societies and necessary for policy makers to decide on crucial questions. The Social Science Research Council is an independent, not-for-profit research organization founded in 1923. Based in New York City, it mobilizes researchers, policy makers, professionals, activists, and other experts from the private and public sectors to develop innovative approaches to issues of critical social importance.