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DESCRIPTION:“Few ideas have more profoundly poisoned the minds of more people than 
 the notion of a ‘free market’ existing somewhere in the universe, into 
 which government ‘intrudes,’” writes Robert Reich in SAVING 
 CAPITALISM: For the Many, Not the Few . This “free market”, he argues, 
 isn’t free—it’s man made and subject to the parameters we set. “A 
 market—any market—requires that government enforce the rules of the 
 game.” And, as Reich shows us, that game is rigged. \n\nHe reveals the 
 cycles of power and influence that have created the new American oligarchy, 
 shrunk the middle class, and driven the United States to the greatest 
 income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. As the rules by 
 which the “free” market operates have changed over the past decades, 
 they’ve evolved to serve the needs of those with the most political 
 influence—moneyed interest groups with lobbyists and big donations to 
 make themselves heard. As a result, large corporations can declare 
 bankruptcy and wipe the slate clean, but homeowners and student debtors 
 can’t. Wall Street bankers get bailed out when they gamble excessively, 
 while millions of Americans lose their jobs, homes, and savings. Big 
 companies monopolize industries and collude on prices, causing us to pay 
 more.  SAVING CAPITALISM  is an indictment of our economic status quo and a 
 revelatory look at how our system really functions. \n\nThe author takes a 
 measured view even as he argues against free market orthodoxies … Reich's 
 overriding message is that we don't have to put up with things as they 
 are.” —Kirkus\n\n“Robert Reich has written a riveting guide to how 
 our economic and political system has become so badly flawed, distorted by 
 pervasive rent seeking and monopolies.  He explains our rising inequality 
 and our poor economic performance.  Wholesale reform is needed—far beyond 
 the usual prescriptions of raising the minimum wage and spending more money 
 on education.” —Joseph Stiglitz\n\n“This is an important and 
 provocative book about the erosion of America’s middle class by one of 
 the nation’s most astute and passionate social critics. Reich provides an 
 original and compelling analysis of how the rules governing America’s 
 form of capitalism have contributed to growing income inequality and of how 
 these rules have been distorted by the role of money in the U.S. political 
 system.” —Laura D’Andrea Tyson\n\nROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor’s 
 Professor of Public Policy at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of 
 Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior fellow 
 at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three 
 national administrations and has written fourteen books, including The Work 
 of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and the 
 best sellers Supercapitalism and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles have 
 appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The 
 Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is co-creator of the 
 award-winning 2013 film Inequality for All. He is also chair of the 
 national governing board of Common Cause. He lives in Berkeley.\n\nHosted 
 by SASHA LILLEY, the co-host and co-producer of Against the Grain, a 
 weekday show on Pacifica Radio. Lilley is the editor of Capital and Its 
 Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, and a 
 contributor to the Turbulence Collective's What Would it Mean to Win?, a 
 collection of debates about the direction of the Global Justice 
 Movement.\n\nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM \n\nadvance tickets: $12 : 
 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2142478 :: T: 800-838-3006  or Books 
 Inc (Berkeley) Pegasus (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a 
 Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s  S.F. - Modern Times. $15 door, KPFA benefit   
 \n information www.kpfa.org/events   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/21/18779152.php
SUMMARY:Robert Reich: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/21/18779152.php
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