Editors Note: The introductory chapter of Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business (2008) is reproduced here with the kind permission of Icon Books. (Copyright 2008 Icon Books). Robert Reich is interviewed in this issue of …
Over the last fifteen years American corporations have remained as competitive as ever. Their share of global exports has not significantly changed from what it was during the Carter years. The same cannot, however, be said of the competitiveness of …
“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done,” John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1936. A half century later, Keynes’s fear seems just as warranted as …
Charles Murray’s Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 is a fierce polemic about the failure of Great Society liberalism to improve the lot of America’s poor. Murray’s argument comes in three parts. In the first part he contends that precisely …
Persistent unemployment and pervasive mismatches between skills and job opportunities are symptoms of a basic problem: America’s labor force is not participating in the growing segments of the world economy. One out of every six jobs in the American economy …
