Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Brian Gabriel - GoodreadsCapitalism is roughly defined as "economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit from investment." Democracy is defined as "a form of government in which ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Keith - GoodreadsThe premise of this book is extremely simple: The balance between democracy and capitalism has been thrown off equilibrium. The reason is not a secret conspiracy between DC and Wall Street to keep the ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Carol Kuniholm - GoodreadsI've been trying to understand what's happening economically, politically, globally, and noticed quite a few discussions mentioned Robert Reich. Supercapitalism gives some really helpful insight into ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Dylan Suher - GoodreadsReich's account of the rise of Neoliberalism curiously omits significant antagonism and occasionally employs some shaky arguments. For example, I find the Marxist analysis of the crisis of the '70s to ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Geof Morris - GoodreadsSo Reich spends the first half or so of the book setting up the framed argument: what he calls democratic capitalism, but what I would call oligopolic capitalism, served the common good ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Brenton - GoodreadsA very intuitive, intriguing look at how capitalism and democracy fit together. Reich dismisses political theories that place the problems of our recent decades at the feet of one class or another (ie ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Michael - GoodreadsThis is an excellent read. Reich is a great storyteller, so he is able to break down the workings of contemporay markets and how they interact with democracy. His interpretive structure provides ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Dan Spradlin - GoodreadsI generally liked this book because the information I thought was presented in a factual way and then an interpretation followed. My only criticism is that it showed a disparity of wealth distribution ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Clinton - GoodreadsSupercapitalism is broadly defined as the separation of capitalism and democracy citing eight reasons. However, the problem with the term Supercapitalism is that capitalism and democracy have always ... Read full review
Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
User Review - Betsy Curlin - GoodreadsWithout a doubt, one of the best books I've ever read on the economics of American society, and how this has changed from the Democratic Capitalism of the 1950s and 1960s (remember LBJ's Great Society ... Read full review
