books by Robert B. Reich

books by Robert B. Reich

books:

Robert B. Reich

The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)

Adam Smith, Robert Reich

Modern Library, 2000

a classic
It's a big book, but not in any way complicated. In a nutshell, it details the mechanisms by which personal liberty -- accompanied by personal responsibility and a just system of government -- make nations, and the individuals who live in them, wealthy. I had a ...

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

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2002

REICH: Book about Work from someone with NO REAL Job
THE TRUTH: THOSE CANNOT DO WILL TEACH. The old age wisdom says we should only preach about those things we know, have experience. Here we have an author, the Former U.S. Secretary of Labor writing about work. Has Robert Reich ever had a Real, TRUE job. He ...

The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 1992

Is Globalization the end of America as we know it?
This book presaged the meaning and effects of the global economy. It warned us as early as 1991, during Bill Clinton's first term as President, that every aspect of what we once remembered as the nation state, will undergo change, perhaps forever. It is entirely ...

Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2005

Buy it. You'll like it.
In short, I highly recommend this book to anyone who espouses reason over vitriolic spew. If you love America, but are troubled by the current state of affairs, this book may provide you with some level of inspiration. I purposefully chose the audio version of this ...

I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society

Robert B. Reich

Beacon Press, 2003

Needed to counteract the dry treatment of economic texts
I teach economics, and even I find it techie, dry and obtuse. My biggest concern is how do I keep the students awake. Economics needs a more human face than the abstact and disinteresting material we push at students using traditional text books. So I require a book ...

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Vintage)

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2008

Supercapitalism
The author describes the growing disconnect between capitalism and the communities served by our economic system. Initially, he discusses the 1873-1897 Long Depression which economists still debate today. Workers migrated from farms to factories. Between 1945-1975, ...

The Future of Success

Random House Audio, 2001

Prisoners of Our Choices
The question is simple. Most Americans are better off today than were their predecessors a generation ago. Technology is faster. Deals are better. Services are more convenient. Opportunities are more available. So why are our personal lives harder? The question ...

Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (BK Currents (Hardcover))

Charles Halpern

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008

Action Guided by Wisdom
From the beginning of this tale of Charles Halpern's remarkable accomplishments, it was obvious that he was an intelligent, effective individual with many skills. But competent doesn't necessarily mean wise. Fortunately for us readers, interwoven with the story of his ...

The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for Poor America (The New Democracy Forum)
Richard B. Freeman

Beacon Press, 1999

A wake-up call on the new American inequality and what to do about it Harvard economist Richard B. Freeman launches this provocative book with the idea that in equality is the one problem from which all crises in America flow. He contends that inequality?both economic and social?has become more brutal and pervasive in the last twenty years, and ...

Locked in the Cabinet

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 1998

The Politics of Mud Wrestling
Reich is absolutely brilliant and this book presents a good dollop of his wisdom. Few people in politics are driven by ideals anymore, which makes Reich's laser focus on improving economic inequity all the more laudable. And doomed. In fact, this book explains a ...

The Future of Success
Robert B. Reich

Alfred A. Knopf, 2000

If you think its getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but were paying a steep price: were working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting. With the clarity and insight that are his ...

Power of Public Ideas

Robert B. Reich

Harvard University Press, 1990

The Power of Public Ideas
The dominant model of political behavior - pluralism - assumes that people are self-interested and uses economic behavior as an analogy for political behavior. People organize themselves into groups to get their needs met, and these groups compete with one another to ...

Making Work Pay: America After Welfare

New Press, 2002

Leading experts and journalists offer an incisive, wide-ranging critique of welfare reform. In the four years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it," millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers ...

Tales of a New America

Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 1988

excellent political science book
Reich wants America to consider a new intellectual framework for everything from interpersonal to economic to security dealings. This book is an elegantly written critique of contemporary American political mythology. It's searching, literate and right (in the right ...