''All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy'' () is a book written by
Jared Bernstein
Jared Bernstein (born December 26, 1955) is an American government official who was the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was ...
, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to
Vice President
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice p ...
, and published in 2006. In it, Bernstein lays the groundwork of what he argues are deep-rooted problems within the
U.S. economic system and offers a collaborative solution in which economic risk is shouldered equally at all levels. Bernstein uses the issues of
globalization
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,
health care
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, and
income inequality
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as his case examples of how to improve
government policy
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.
Bernstein often uses the acronyms WITT (we're in this together) and YOYO (you're on your own) to define a basic difference in contemporary political thinking. He promotes the benefits of a "WITT" ideal while describing faults of a "YOYO" attitude.
Reception
The book received a generally positive reception, receiving reviews from academic journals including ''
New Labor Forum'' and ''Community Development'' (
Taylor & Francis
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), along with having excerpts published in ''
The New York Times
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''.
The book was also reviewed by the magazine ''
Industrial Worker
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'' and a number of other publications.
["How Capitalism Works Now", ''The American Prospect'' (Nov 2006, vol 17, no 11), pp 54-56.]
References
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2006 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Books about the economy of the United States