A Fresh Challenge to Reaganomics

Robert Reich provides intellectual firepower for the Democrats

Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale calls it "one of the most important works of the decade." Says Senator Gary Hart, another Democratic hopeful: "Few books on economics are bold enough to capture one's imagination. This is one." The object of the praise is The Next American Frontier (Times Books; $16.60), a provocative new analysis of America's economic ills by Robert Reich, 36, professor of business and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Searching for alternatives to laissez-faire Reaganomics, the activist Democrats have found...

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