The Future of Success, Robert B. Reich
The Future of Success, Robert B. Reich
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The Future of Success

Author: Robert B. Reich

Narrator: Robert B. Reich

Abridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

If you think it’s 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 we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives. It is getting harder for people to be confident of what they will be earning next year, or even next month. At the same time, our society is splitting into socially stratified enclaves--the wealthier walled off and gated, the poorer isolated and ignored. Although the trends he discusses are powerful, they are not irreversible, and Reich makes provocative suggestions for how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives. Some of his ideas may surprise you; all should spark a healthy–and essential–national debate.

About The Author

Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor, is a University Professor at Brandeis University.  This is his seventh book.  He is the national editor of The American Prospect and writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.  He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hubert

Former Clinton Labor Secretary (and now Progressive pundit) Robert Reich put out this 2001 exegesis on labor, social mobility, and which portended some of the issues that we're running into today politically and socially on a much larger scale. The book starts off with the Panglossian view that techn......more

Goodreads review by Gabe

three stars because Reich provides a refreshing and accessible summary of the social and interpersonal consequences of our high-tech global economy, but reduces our future prospects to a false dichotomy between neo-luddism or a return to the regulatory state. while the policy proposals at the end of......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Robert Reich is an economist and a former US Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. In this book, he describes some of the macro trends that affect how we work and live in the 21st century. Reich's basic premise is this: The dual forces of information technology and globalization are leadi......more


Quotes

"Reich is a big thinker and a great writer." –The Washington Post

“A valuable work. . . . Reich has a talent for mastering economic and social complexities and making them easy for the layperson to grasp.” –The Wall Street Journal

"A well-researched and documented analysis of the present state of working life in America." –The Plain Dealer

“Reich writes in ways unusual for an economist; he is self-effacing, witty and more interested in exploring the world’s complexities than in uncovering unvarying laws.” – The New York Times Book Review