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Since the 1970s, and notwithstanding three recessions, the U.S. economy has soared. Consumers have been treated to a vast array of new products, while the prices of standard goods and services have declined. Companies have also become far more efficient and the stock market has surged. In short, American capitalism has been a triumph, and it has spread throughout the world. At the same time, argues former secretary of labor Robert B. Reich, the effectiveness of democracy in America has declined. It has grown less responsive to the citizenry, and people are feeling more and more helpless as a result. In Supercapitalism, Reich discusses how capitalism has spilled over into politics, how it threatens democracy, and how citizens both benefit from and lose out because of supercapitalism

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"Supercapitalism reminds us that the power of political courage grows when it is joined with clear thinking.-- ""Bill Bradley, author of The New American Story"" ""Supercapitalism is not a polemic or a call to arms. Reich is merely trying to dent capitalism's rock-star status while suggesting to a dazed citizenry that, as Shakespeare said of Caesar's Rome, the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""A grand debunking of the conventional wisdom...The main thrust of Reich's argument is right on target...Reich documents in lurid detail the explosive growth of corporate lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions since the 1970s."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""An engaging and insightful account."" -- ""Harvard Business Review"""

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Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written more than a dozen books, including several New York Times bestsellers. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He is co-creator of the award-winning film Inequality for All. He writes a weekly column for Newsweek and the London Guardian. He is co-creator of the award-winning film Inequality for All and the Netflix original Saving Capitalism, and co-founder of Inequality Media. Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater.

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