Saving Capitalism, 9781785781766
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The middle class is disappearing. Can capitalism be saved?

Saving Capitalism

For The Many, Not The Few

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    2 February 2017

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Summary

Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family?

Robert Reich does - in the 1950s his father sold clothes to factory workers and the family earned enough to live comfortably. Today, this middle class is rapidly shrinking: American income inequality and wealth disparity is the greatest it’s been in eighty years. As Reich, who served in three US administrations, shows, the threat …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781785781766
ISBN-10:1785781766
Author:Robert Reich
Publisher:Icon Books
Imprint:Icon Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:2 February 2017
Weight:224g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 17mm
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Critics Review

‘A riveting guide to how our economic and political system has become so badly flawed.’

A riveting guide to how our economic and political system has become so badly flawed. – Joseph StiglitzReich 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. * Paul Krugman, The New York Review of Books *One of Reich’s finest works, and is required reading for anyone who has hope that a capitalist system can indeed work the many, and not just the few. * Salon *Arresting, thought-provoking… Readily understandable language… Powerful. * Publishers Weekly *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 *Reich has both the stature and eloquence to make a compelling case… Highly recommended to all readers… Insightful. * Library Journal, starred review *

About The Author

Robert Reich

Robert 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 bestsellers Supercapitalism and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He is co-creator of the award-winning 2013 film Inequality for All.

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