The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

The political economy of inequality and power, from a former Secretary of Labor who has spent decades on the question. Reich argues that wealth and political influence have combined to tilt the rules toward those at the top, and sets out what a fairer arrangement would require. The book names the mechanisms and then, characteristically, calls the reader to do something about them. Read for the link between economic power and political power, and the case that the two cannot be separated.

A former Secretary of Labor and longtime writer on inequality and economic power. Saving Capitalism and The System examine how wealth and political influence have combined, in his account, to tilt the rules toward those at the top, and what a fairer arrangement would require. He writes the political economy of power and inequality for the widest possible readership.