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...
I will now continue worshipping at the altar of Robert Reich.I came away from this book thinking, "Wow, I really learned something." Not, "I learned some interesting factoids," or "I learned of an interesting opinion." I really learned.Reich presents his premise very succinctly at the beginning of...
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.
It's so easy today for us to rant about corporate greed or the sad fact that small independent businesses are being replaced by large superstores. And we are quick to blame heartless CEOs or big corporations. But in his book, Supercapitalism, Reich describes the forces in the US that are driving t...