Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few

If you’ve ever been exposed to Robert Reich’s “Wealth and Poverty” course at UC Berkeley, perhaps through the film Inequality for All, or heard him speak in public, you know that there are few people alive today who are his equal in the ability to explain complex economic and social issues so cogent......more

This is a really quick read for the liberal looking to impress their friends and win a few internet debates about economics. Far from perfect, it substitutes in-depth analysis for readable theory making it the perfect introduction to the material. What makes this book a five-star read is that it's a......more

Reich's key point, and the one on which the rest of the book hangs, is that our political debate over preferring the "free market" on one hand to more government intervention on the other, is misguided: there is no disembodied market without rules made by government, that is, by humans. In our prese......more

"Those who claim to be on the side of freedom while ignoring the growing imbalance of economic and political power in America and other advanced countries are not in fact on the side of freedom. They are on the side of those with the power." It's no surprise to any American that the rich are getting......more

This is a critically important book for a few reasons. First, it exposes the meaninglessness of the “free market” vs. government intervention debate by showing that the market cannot exist in the first place without the laws, rules, contracts, and enforcement mechanisms that government creates. The r......more