Robert Reich: 16 books
Fired!
Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
If you've ever been fired, you're in good company. That's what actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch discovered when she was fired by her idol Woody Allen ("You look retarded"). She confided her tale of woe to her friend Felicity Huffman, who made Annabelle laugh with her own stories. Annabelle realized...
Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?
The Munk Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Will Donald J. Trump be America’s next president? For some, his brash, politically incorrect campaign is the panacea for the Washington and Wall Street elites that have saddled the country with endless wars, an anemic economy, and growing racial division. Trump’s boosters believe he will usher...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Locked in the Cabinet is a close-up view of the way things work, and often don't work, at the highest levels of government--and a uniquely personal account by the man whose ideas inspired and animated much of the Clinton campaign of 1992 and who became the cabinet officer in charge of helping ordinary...
Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.
When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests...
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of...
The Work of Nations
Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
There is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book. What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders? What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can our country best ensure that...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
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...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Dimenticate quello che credete di sapere sul capitalismo come lo conosciamo oggi. Dimenticate la diffusa convinzione che si tratti di un sistema meritocratico in cui chiunque, se lavora davvero sodo, può farcela; che quelli che non ce la fanno, i poveri, siano responsabili della loro condizione....
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce...
Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition
What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.
In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good...
Reason
Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor*,* this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason*,* one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for rolling...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
Aftershock
Il futuro dell’economia dopo la crisi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 30, 2012
I ricchi sono sempre più ricchi. I poveri sempre più poveri. La concentrazione dei dividendi è sempre più nelle mani di poche persone. I banchieri non sembrano aver imparato la lezione degli anni precedenti e stanno ricominciando ad imporre i loro diktat ai governi. Di conseguenza, le paure e...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened...
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