{"product_id":"the-work-of-nations-isbn-9780679736158","title":"The Work of Nations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book.  What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders?  What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can our country best ensure that \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e its citizen have a share in the new global economy?  Robert B. Reich, the widely respected and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Next American Frontier \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Resurgent Liberal,\u003c\/i\u003e defines the real challenge facing the United States in the 21st century in this trail-blazing book.  Original, readable, and vastly informed, \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Nations \u003c\/i\u003eis certain to set a standard for the next generation of policy-makers.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Original and important... Robert B. Reich offers a fresh analysis of America's present economic and social prospects.\"- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The World of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e will be—and should be—widely read and debated\u003ci\u003e.\"- Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Robert Reich is one of the country's most innovative and interesting political economists.... Very few readers will walk away [from this book] without learning to think about the world in a new and clearer way\u003ci\u003e.\"- Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A rarity...a work of economic theory that a layman can read with pleasure and intellectual profit\u003ci\u003e.\"- The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Reich covers a remarkable range of material with facility and intelligence\u003ci\u003e.\"- Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurrently Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, Robert Reich is a member of the faculty of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and one of America's foremost political economists.  A graduate of Dartmouth College, Yale Law School, and Oxford University, he served as Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Ford administrations and Director of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission in the Carter administration.  He is a contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic,\u003c\/i\u003e chairman of the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eThe American Prospect, \u003c\/i\u003ea frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003eand a regular commentator for both National Public Radio, and public television.  He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resurgent Liberal, Tales of a New America, New Deals: The Chrysler Revival and the American System, The Next American Frontier, Minding America's Business, \u003c\/i\u003eand other books.  Reich lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor of The Future of Success","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302386061541,"sku":"NP9780679736158","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679736158.jpg?v=1767742302","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-work-of-nations-isbn-9780679736158","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}