Jacob Hacker, author Winner Take All Politics and The Great Risk Shift is working with Nate Loewentheil on a project called "Prosperity Economics," in which they lay out a coherent alternative to the austerity economics that has invaded the political class like a virus. Finally, we have a political/economic program for both the short term and the long term that will create prosperity across all income classes, reform our broken political system, invest for the long term and, not incidentally, fix the debt problem-- all without cutting vital government programs. Prosperity economics proves that these calls to "sacrifice" for more austerity are not only unnecessary, they are counter-productive.