Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanely B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Ludwig Program in Public Sector Leadership at Yale Law School, and a resident fellow of the Institution for Social Policy Studies at Yale University. He co-leads the Consortium on American Political Economy Project and co-chairs the American Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association. Hacker holds a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of eleven books, including: Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (with P. Pierson; Simon and Schuster, 2010); American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led us to Forget What Made American Prosper (with P. Pierson; Simon and Schuster, 2016); The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (Oxford, 2019); Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality (with P. Pierson, 2020); and most recently, The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power (ed. Cambridge, 2022). Hacker has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck-Science Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies and the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the US Library of Congress. He is the recipient of the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award of the Public Policy Section of the APSA, and an inductee of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.