Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future (MP3 Book)
The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in...
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The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top—and where a grasping middle class simply does not have the resources to remain viable.
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Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781449840327 (1449840329)
Publish date: September 21st 2010
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
Pretty good book. Even for someone like me who doesn't enjoy reading about economics all that much. He presents everything in a fairly simple way and at only 146 actual pages it's not a grueling read. I strongly disagree with a couple of the measures he proposes in the 'What Should Be Done' porti...
So clear-cut and readable. Reich's core argument is that the middle class can no longer get ahead; wages are (and have been for far too long) stagnant, unemployment is rising, and our debt load is crushing. There's therefore no incentive for what conservatives are currently calling "the job creato...
I didn't agree with everything Mr Reich had to say but I really appreciated that this book made me think. I also thought it was incredibly lacking in party politics.
Reich cuts through all the spin and clearly diagnoses causes/effects of economic policies. His solutions feel aimed right at the heart of everyday hard working folks' dilemnas.
Excellent read about America's future! "But we did not learn the larger lesson of the 1930's: that when the distribution of income gets too far out of whack, the economy needs to be reorganized so the broad middle class has enough buying power to rejuvenate the economy over the longer term." "Until ...
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