His forthcoming book in this connection, A Republic of Owners, is on capital-spreading policies and programs aimed at increasing the share of average Americans' incomes deriving from business capital rather than labor.

[citation needed] On February 8, 2019, Hockett appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss the Green New Deal championed by Ocasio-Cortez.

There Hockett represented that his client, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had not proposed government subsidies for those "unwilling to work" as part of the Green New Deal.

Hockett further asserted that this and other controversial elements of the plan originated on hoax documents created by unspecified Republican opponents of Ocasio-Cortez.

[8] On February 11, 2019, The Washington Post noted that a summary of the Green New Deal proposal released by Ocasio-Cortez's office had, in fact, claimed that the plan involved subsidies for those unwilling to work,[9] but that the official resolution submitted to the House of Representatives did not include this element.