Books written by Robert B. Reich

  • The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalis

    Under no circumstances were the colonies to manufacture prodQuoted from Ch. W. Cole, Colbert and a Century of French Mercantilism (New York: World, 1939), Vol. 1, p. 337. *Quoted in F. Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, ...

  • Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

    Bork, p. 21. 33. Ibid., pp. 13, 17. 34. Ibid., pp. 34,55. 35. Ibid., p. 2. 36. Quoted in Robert Shogan, “Clinton Is Ducking the Issues. ... Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah (New York: ReganBooks, 1996), p. 5. 6.

  • Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and how to Fix it

    Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.

  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    determined worker safety and hours. evolution was still considered contentious, immigrants were almost all European. big corporations and robber barons ran the government. the poor were desperate, and the rich lived like old-world ...

  • Perché i liberal vinceranno ancora

    Robert H. Bork , op . cit . , p . 67 . 9. Milton Friedman , Liberi di scegliere ... Si veda Jon Hilsenrath - Rebecca Buckman , Factory Employment Is Falling WorldWide , in « Wall Street Journal » , 20 ottobre 2003 , p . A2 . 21.

  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

    Net: $436.3 billion. A similar analysis was done for capital gains taxes, yielding a net of some $170 billion. The four hundred highest-income taxpayers in 2007: See David Cay Johnston, Tax Analysts, ...

  • Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

    ... top 1 percent: See Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez, “Top Incomes in the Long Run of History,” Journal of Economic Literature 49, no. 1 (2011): 41–42. When railroad workers went on strike: See Robert E. Weir, ...

  • The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

    The doctrine of divine right of kings ended with England's Glorious Revolution in the seventeenth century and the American and French revolutions in the eighteenth. The modern equivalent of the divine right of kings might be termed ...

  • Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

    The prevailing view -- The five building blocks of capitalism -- Freedom and power -- The new property -- The new monopoly -- The new contracts -- The new bankruptcy -- The enforcement mechanism -- Summary : the market mechanism as a whole ...

  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

    Analyzes the economic crisis while making recommendations for responsibly navigating its aftermath, suggesting that the downturn actually resulted from a disproportionate concentration of wealth at the expense of a debt-burdened middle ...

  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

    Analyzes the economic crisis while making recommendations for responsibly navigating its aftermath, suggesting that the downturn actually resulted from a disproportionate concentration of wealth at the expense of a debt-burdened middle ...

  • L'infelicità del successo

    Elizabeth Strout , Amy e Isabelle , traduzione di Martina Testa . 11. Lorenzo Licalzi , Io no . ( 3a ed . ) 12. William Hazlitt , Sull'ignoranza delle persone colte e altri saggi , a cura di Fabio De Propris . 13.

  • The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy

    The former Secretary of Labor and author of The Work of Nations takes a close-up look at the new economy and its impact on American life, discussing the vast opportunities and challenges of the Internet marketplace and its implications in ...

  • Tales of a New America

    The Harvard political economist argues that Americans must rethink some important cultural myths and self-definitions if the U.S. is to retain its dominant role within the emerging global economy.

  • Principles of Microeconomics 2E for Umich

    Principles of Microeconomics 2E for Umich

  • Locked in the Cabinet

    Offers an account of the author's service as Secretary of Labor in the first Clinton administration, revealing the machinations of the president's cabinet and the politicians who try to thwart it

  • The Common Good

    ""Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship.

  • Tales of a New America: The Anxious Liberal's Guide to the Future

    An influential political economist's persuasive argument that Americans need to profoundly recast some important myths about America to successfully maintain its current place and power within the emerging global economy.

  • The Next American Frontier

    Brings together economic, social, and political analyses to formulate a program for an American revival, in terms of the nation's economy and of a more equitable life for the American people

  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

    Analyzes the economic crisis while making recommendations for responsibly navigating its aftermath, suggesting that the downturn actually resulted from a disproportionate concentration of wealth at the expense of a debt-burdened middle ...