Supercapitalism and its Discontents: An Interview with Robert Reich

Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three US administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton, and has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations, The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. The introduction to his most recent book, Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business (published in the UK by Icon Books), can be read exclusively in this issue of Democratiya. The interview took place on 21 August, 2008.