Supercapitalism, Robert B. Reich
Supercapitalism, Robert B. Reich
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Supercapitalism
The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

Author: Robert B. Reich

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/15/2007

Synopsis

Since the 1970s, and notwithstanding three recessions, the U.S. economy has soared. Consumers have been treated to a vast array of new products, while the prices of standard goods and services have declined. Companies have also become far more efficient and the stock market has surged. In short, American capitalism has been a triumph, and it has spread throughout the world.

At the same time, argues former secretary of labor Robert B. Reich, the effectiveness of democracy in America has declined. It has grown less responsive to the citizenry, and people are feeling more and more helpless as a result. In Supercapitalism, Reich discusses how capitalism has spilled over into politics, how it threatens democracy, and how citizens both benefit from and lose out because of supercapitalism.

About Robert B. Reich

Robert B. Reich, the secretary of labor under President Clinton, is a professor of public policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of ten books, including the bestsellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Margie on May 20, 2012

I will now continue worshipping at the altar of Robert Reich. I came away from this book thinking, "Wow, I really learned something." Not, "I learned some interesting factoids," or "I learned of an interesting opinion." I really learned. Reich presents his premise very succinctly at the beginning of t......more

Goodreads review by Venky on May 27, 2020

With the major part of 7 billion people left to combat a raging pandemic, the consequences of such a struggle transcends from being merely one related to health. While, what seems to be an existential crisis, has left the world of medicine scrambling to find a vaccine in record time, millions of ind......more

Goodreads review by Artù on August 19, 2023

Non mi occupo di politica, per pigrizia. Solitamente è meglio ignorare le cose che non puoi cambiare, quieto vivere, altro ragionamento da uomo pigro. Però mi chiedo sempre in cosa consista una vita felice, ed in questo non sono pigro, ne egoista. Quindi la felicità ha un valore qualora sia qualcosa......more

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