{"id":3362,"date":"2015-12-02T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2015-12-02T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:55:42","slug":"challenging-the-oligarchy-by-paul-krugman-the-new-york-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/challenging-the-oligarchy-by-paul-krugman-the-new-york-review-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging the Oligarchy by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2015\/12\/17\/robert-reich-challenging-oligarchy\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/reich_robert-detail.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1991, in what now seems like a far more innocent time, Robert Reich published an influential book titled <i>The Work of Nations<\/i>, which among other things helped land him a cabinet post in the Clinton administration. It was a good book for its time\u2014but time has moved on. And the gap between that relatively sunny take and Reich\u2019s latest, <i>Saving Capitalism<\/i>, is itself an indicator of the unpleasant ways America has changed.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Work of Nations<\/i> was in some ways a groundbreaking work, because it focused squarely on the issue of rising inequality\u2014an issue some economists, myself included, were already taking seriously, but that was not yet central to political discourse. Reich\u2019s book saw inequality largely as a technical problem, with a technocratic, win-win solution. That was then. These days, Reich offers a much darker vision, and what is in effect a call for class war\u2014or if you like, for an uprising of workers against the quiet class war that America\u2019s oligarchy has been waging for decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2015\/12\/17\/robert-reich-challenging-oligarchy\/\">Challenging the Oligarchy by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1991, in what now seems like a far more innocent time, Robert Reich published an influential book titled The Work of Nations, which among other things helped land him a cabinet post in the Clinton administration. It was a good book for its time\u2014but time has moved on. And the gap between that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Se","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}