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Anne L. Alstott

Anne L. Alstott is Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School, coauthor of The Stakeholder Society, and author of No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents.

Articles

Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.
Anne L. Alstott
Anne L. Alstott

Forums

The goal should not be to render child-rearing costless. The goal should be to lighten the burden.

Anne L. Alstott

Forum Responses

Going Beyond Market Correction Like others on the American left, David Grusky would like to channel the raw outrage of Occupy Wall Street into a workable political idea. But market correction, while...
Anne L. Alstott
Nancy Hirschmann’s brave and honest article rightly points out the weakness of the public-goods rationale for state support of care. That instrumental claim invites instrumental thinking: if care is just a means...
Anne L. Alstott
My essay alienated critics from the traditional Left (Deborah Stone) and Right (Richard Epstein) but elicited exceptionally thoughtful responses from others. Stone’s critique badly misreads my argument. I do not slight parental...
Anne L. Alstott
There is much to admire in Jody Heymann’s essay. She deftly reveals the outmoded assumptions that shape American social policy. She offers practical programs that could improve the lives of vulnerable people—poor...
Anne L. Alstott
Philippe Van Parijs’s proposal deserves serious consideration in the United States. A universal basic income has much to offer, particularly to women. A UBI could help fill the gaps in US social...
Anne L. Alstott

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