Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Robert Bernard Reichis an American political commentator, professor, and author. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth24 June 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.
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Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
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Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
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In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.
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If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.
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Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.
lying technology routine
In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.
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Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.
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We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.
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The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.
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The Democratic Party is DEAD.
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The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)
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The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.
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The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.