Aftershock Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Robert B. Reich
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
206

Aftershock by Robert B. Reich Book Summary

A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.

When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top, and in a middle class that has had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living.

Persuasively and straightforwardly, Reich reveals how precarious our situation still is. The last time in American history when wealth was so highly concentrated at the top—indeed, when the top 1 percent of the population was paid 23 percent of the nation’s income—was in 1928, just before the Great Depression. Such a disparity leads to ever greater booms followed by ever deeper busts.

Reich’s thoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over the next decades reveals the essential truth about our economy that is driving our politics and shaping our future. With keen insight, he shows us how the middle class lacks enough purchasing power to buy what the economy can produce and has adopted coping mechanisms that have a negative impact on their quality of life; how the rich use their increasing wealth to speculate; and how an angrier politics emerges as more Americans conclude that the game is rigged for the benefit of a few. Unless this trend is reversed, the Great Recession will only be repeated.

Reich’s assessment of what must be done to reverse course and ensure that prosperity is widely shared represents the path to a necessary and long-overdue transformation. Aftershock is a practical, humane, and much-needed blueprint for both restoring America’s economy and rebuilding our society.

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Book Name Aftershock
Genre Economics
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 6.75 MB

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A lucid illustration of a complex cataclysm.. Reich has a clear and direct manner of walking me through exceptionally complex events. Readable, not boring, and powerfully educational - I polished this off in a couple of days and now have a satisfying, historical and factual understanding of what may prove someday to be one of the most nationally embarrassing and revealing works on the American character.

Worthwhile read. As a conservative and a free marketer I was surprisingly swayed by the points of the author. This book is much more than a simple op-ed and should be read by anyone who is interested conceptualizing where we are as a country regarding our economy.

A must read!. This book has helped me understand the economic crisis that the country and faced many times. In addition there is a blueprint for how an individual and we as a country can avoid the same mistakes made in the past.

Aftershock. Very enlightening,confirming my worst nitemares. I am 68 yes old. I was not optimistic before aftershock, and am still not, but at least now I no where to aim my gun. Yes I am already beyond reform. I am angry as he'll.

Must read. A fabulous book! It explains complex economics in a very straight forward manner. A must read! I have taken six college economic courses, including studying the depression. To me, it was so obvious our government did the right thing to avoid the depression in 2008 and 2009. Yes, our government did the right thing! Yet, if tea party people were in charge there is no doubt we would be in a serious depression, and we would have even worse deficits, higher unemployment, and did the automakers repay that loan? This book is important to help educate. It is unfortunate that the people who need it the most are stuck in that bubble on the unenlightened side and will never change.

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Summary of Aftershock by Robert B. Reich

The Aftershock book written by Robert B. Reich was published on 21 September 2010, Tuesday in the Economics category. A total of 206 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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