Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations and has written fourteen books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and the bestsellers Supercapitalism and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is co-creator of the award-winning 2013 film Inequality for All. He is also chair of the national governing board of Common Cause. He lives in Berkeley.
www.robertreich.org
Praise for Robert B. Reich's Saving Capitalism
A Publishers Weekly Business & Economics Top 10 selection
for Fall 2015 Ambitious. . . . Reich makes a very good case that
widening inequality largely reflects political decisions that could
have gone in very different directions. . . . Saving
Capitalism is a very good guide to the state we're in. --The
New York Review of Books "If you want to understand why income and
wealth inequality are the economic, political, and moral issues of
our time, you must read this book. Robert Reich is one of the best
economists in modern American history. This book is a roadmap on
how to rebuild the middle class and fix a rigged economy that has
been propped up by a corrupt campaign finance system." --United
States Senator Bernie Sanders "[A] sweeping treatise on
inequality in America. . . . A rallying call." --The New York Times
Book Review "One of Reich's finest works, and is required reading
for anyone who has hope that a capitalist system can indeed work
for the many, and not just the few." --Salon "Like any good
teacher, Robert Reich knows that making a simple yet crucial idea
stick often takes much time and many presentations of the concept.
. . . In Saving Capitalism, Reich drives home a basic fact that, if
widely understood, could lift America from today's destructive
political standoff." --Chicago Tribune "A well-written,
thought-provoking book by one of America's leading economic
thinkers and progressive champions." --The Huffington Post
"Engrossing. . . . [Reich] is calmly articulate, not alarmist; yet
a sense of urgency pulses through his unambiguous prose." --The
Argonaut (Los Angeles)
"Audacious. . . . Offers a pragmatic reform-filled path forward. .
. . [Reich takes] on the very language used by the business world
that perpetuates the myth that the private sector exists as magical
sphere entirely unrelated to government." --EcoWatch "Reich has
both the stature and eloquence to make a compelling case. His
sharply argued critique is therefore highly recommended to all
readers. . . . Insightful." --Library Journal (starred review) "An
arresting, thought-provoking treatise on the need to reverse the
trend of income inequality in the U.S. . . . Reich's powerful final
argument is that Americans need to rid themselves of the idea that
it's too late to change their economy." --Publishers Weekly "An
accessible examination of how the 'apparent arbitrariness and
unfairness of the economy [has] undermined the public's faith in
its basic tenets'. . . . The author takes a measured view even as
he argues against free market orthodoxies, [and] he arrives at some
innovative reforms. . . . Reich's overriding message is that we
don't have to put up with things as they are. It's a useful and
necessary one." --Kirkus Reviews "This is an important and
provocative book about the erosion of America's middle class by one
of the nation's most astute and passionate social critics. Reich
provides an original and compelling analysis of how the rules
governing America's form of capitalism have contributed to growing
income inequality and of how these rules have been distorted by the
role of money in the U.S. political system." --Laura D'Andrea Tyson
"Robert Reich has written a riveting guide to how our economic and
political system has become so badly flawed, distorted by pervasive
rent seeking and monopolies. He explains our rising inequality and
our poor economic performance. Wholesale reform is needed--far
beyond the usual prescriptions of raising the minimum wage and
spending more money on education." --Joseph Stiglitz "Robert Reich
sets the terms for new and more productive debates by rediscovering
the political roots of the economic arrangements we too often take
for granted. Everyone concerned with our economic future will need
to grapple with Reich's arguments in 2016 and beyond." --Lawrence
H. Summers
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