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Supercapitalism

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Random House Digital, Inc., Sep 4, 2007 - Business & Economics - 272 pages
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful and thought-provoking, Supercapitalism argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the other way around.


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Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

User Review  - Keith - Goodreads

The 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  - Geof Morris - Goodreads

So 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

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Robert B. Reich is professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He last served in government as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He contributes weekly commentaries to Marketplace on public radio, appears regularly on television, and is a cofounding editor of The American Prospect. In 2003 Reich was awarded the prestigious Václav Havel Foundation Prize for pioneering work in economic and social thought. He lives in Berkeley, California.


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