Volume 1 Number 1 Response Pieces

In the inaugural issue of the Harvard Law & Policy Review, scholars and policy commentators considered new approaches to broaden the average American’s share in the gains of globalization and reduce middle-class financial insecurity in an age of job dislocation and rising health care costs. Jacob Hacker highlighted the increasing shift of financial risk onto individual families and offered solutions that spread risk more equitably across society through new social insurance programs. In a similar vein, Michael Lind provided an alternative paradigm to the much ballyhooed “stakeholder society” in what he terms the “smallholder society.” We asked scholars to respond to those ideas.