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Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (BK Currents (Hardcover))

7 reviews
Charles Halpern

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008

Action Guided by Wisdom
From the beginning of this tale of Charles Halpern's remarkable accomplishments, it was obvious that he was an intelligent, effective individual with many skills. But competent doesn't necessarily mean wise. Fortunately for us readers, interwoven with the story of his doing is the story of his psychological/spiritual development -- the story of his growth in wisdom and the integration of that ...

The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)

62 reviews
Adam Smith, Robert Reich

Modern Library, 2000

a classic
It's a big book, but not in any way complicated. In a nutshell, it details the mechanisms by which personal liberty -- accompanied by personal responsibility and a just system of government -- make nations, and the individuals who live in them, wealthy. I had a Marxist professor who did not like Adam Smith because Marxist theory prefers to emphasize class warfare, while Smith is saying that ...

I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society

11 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Beacon Press, 2003

Needed to counteract the dry treatment of economic texts
I teach economics, and even I find it techie, dry and obtuse. My biggest concern is how do I keep the students awake. Economics needs a more human face than the abstact and disinteresting material we push at students using traditional text books. So I require a book report. This book should be a favorite because it is SHORT and to the point. It talks about economics in the context of a healthy ...

Locked in the Cabinet

42 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 1998

The Politics of Mud Wrestling
Reich is absolutely brilliant and this book presents a good dollop of his wisdom. Few people in politics are driven by ideals anymore, which makes Reich's laser focus on improving economic inequity all the more laudable. And doomed. In fact, this book explains a whole lot about how & why Clinton's first term of office became such a disappointment. "B" (as Reich, a longtime FoB, calls him) ...

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Vintage)

46 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2008

Reich changes my worldview
There are really three things I think I would've wanted to know about this book before reading it. 1. Reich's book treats us to a great many (quite persuasive) counterintuitve explanations. I'm a sucker for (good) explanations about phenomena that cut against intuition. For instance, when you learn in basic training that a bullet drops at the same rate as a paperclip, it's obviously true, but ...

Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

54 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2005

Buy it. You'll like it.
In short, I highly recommend this book to anyone who espouses reason over vitriolic spew. If you love America, but are troubled by the current state of affairs, this book may provide you with some level of inspiration. I purposefully chose the audio version of this book because I have heard Reich speak and his quirky delivery is affecting.

The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy

12 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 2002

REICH: Book about Work from someone with NO REAL Job
THE TRUTH: THOSE CANNOT DO WILL TEACH. The old age wisdom says we should only preach about those things we know, have experience. Here we have an author, the Former U.S. Secretary of Labor writing about work. Has Robert Reich ever had a Real, TRUE job. He has spent his whole life in the "Ivory Tower" not the real world where individuals, companies have to provide products and ...

The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism

19 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 1992

Is Globalization the end of America as we know it?
This book presaged the meaning and effects of the global economy. It warned us as early as 1991, during Bill Clinton's first term as President, that every aspect of what we once remembered as the nation state, will undergo change, perhaps forever. It is entirely possible that (as international relations specialists have been saying for sometime now) that the nation state may even be eclipsed. ...

The Future of Success
Robert B. Reich

Alfred A. Knopf, 2000

If you think its 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 were paying a steep price: were 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 ...

The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies

1 review
Robert B. Reich

Vintage, 1991

Great intro to Robert Reich's thinking
I read this book as a high school senior, but even now, 10 years later, I haven't forgotten its basic message. There are haves and have-nots and it's important to think about how disparities in access to wealth, education, housing, and other goodies are created and perpetuated. It's also a call to arms to reduce these inequities. This book is a great foundation if you're interested in ...

Tales of A New America

2 reviews
ROBERT B. Y REICH

Random House USA Inc, 1988

excellent political science book
Reich wants America to consider a new intellectual framework for everything from interpersonal to economic to security dealings. This book is an elegantly written critique of contemporary American political mythology. It's searching, literate and right (in the right way that is).

The Future of Success

30 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Knopf, 2001

Prisoners of Our Choices
The question is simple. Most Americans are better off today than were their predecessors a generation ago. Technology is faster. Deals are better. Services are more convenient. Opportunities are more available. So why are our personal lives harder? The question may be simple, but the answers are not, unless you have the perspective and analytical skill to step back and take a look at the ...

Power of Public Ideas

1 review
Robert B. Reich

Harvard University Press, 1990

The Power of Public Ideas
The dominant model of political behavior - pluralism - assumes that people are self-interested and uses economic behavior as an analogy for political behavior. People organize themselves into groups to get their needs met, and these groups compete with one another to obtain rewards that are allocated through political processes. The role of government is to make sure that political competition ...

Locked in the Cabinet

2 reviews
Robert B. Reich

Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1997

Useful Foundation Book for any Future President
When I devised my policy grid of 12 areas where any President must have integrated forward-thinking sustainable policies, the Economy was one of them, and this book was helpful to me. Unfortunately, Cabinets represent organized stake-holders, not We the People, and they not only do not know who to "do" open source intelligence and decision-support, they spend more of their time defending ...

Making Work Pay: America After Welfare

New Press, 2002

Leading experts and journalists offer an incisive, wide-ranging critique of welfare reform. In the four years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it," millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in the fields of social policy and public affairs to examine the effects of the new national ...

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