Reich's overriding message is that we don't have to put up with things as they are." -Kirkus "This is an important and provocative book about the erosion of America's middle class by one of the nation's most astute and passionate social critics. Powerful." - Publishers Weekly "An accessible examination of how the 'apparent arbitrariness and unfairness of the economy undermined the public's faith in its basic tenets.' The author takes a measured view even as he argues against free market orthodoxies. Insightful." - Library Journal, starred review "Arresting, thought-provoking. on the very language used by the business world that perpetuates the myth that the private sector exists as magical sphere entirely unrelated to government." - EcoWatch "Reich has both the stature and eloquence to make a compelling case. Passionate yet practical, sweeping yet exactingly argued, Saving Capitalism is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.Ī Publishers Weekly Business & Economics Top 10 selection for Fall 2015 "Audacious. Ever the pragmatist, ever the optimist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity when we shore up the countervailing power of everyone else. He shows that the critical choices ahead are not about the size of government but about who government is for: that we must choose not between a free market and "big" government but between a market organized for broadly based prosperity and one designed to deliver the most gains to the top. Reich exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by huge corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street: that all workers are paid what they're "worth," that a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, and that corporations must serve shareholders before employees. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. 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.
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