Robert Bernard Reich (b.1946) is an American economist, professor, author, and political commentator known for his work on economic inequality, labor policy, and progressive thought. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993–97) under President Bill Clinton, shaping policies on wages, employment, and worker protections.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College (1968,) an M.A. from Oxford University (1970) as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1973.) He later taught at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the University of California-Berkeley, where he became Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy. Reich co-founded the Economic Policy Institute and Inequality Media, advocating economic justice and policy reform.
His books include The Work of Nations (1991) on globalization’s impact on labor, Supercapitalism (2007) critiquing corporate influence on democracy, Aftershock (2010) exploring economic inequality, and Saving Capitalism (2015) advocating economic reform. His latest, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It (2020,) examines U.S. power structures.
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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.
—Robert B. Reich
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