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Reich, Robert Bernard (rīsh, rīk), 1946–, American political economist, b. Scranton, Pa. He attended Dartmouth, Oxford Univ. (where he and Bill Clinton Clinton, Bill (William Jefferson Clinton), 1946–, 42d President of the United States (1993–2001), b. Hope, Ark. His father died before he was born, and he was originally named William Jefferson Blythe 4th, but after his mother remarried, he assumed the
..... Click the link for more information. were Rhodes scholars), and Yale Law School. After graduation in 1973 he entered government service, becoming assistant solicitor general in the Dept. of Justice (1974–76) and director of policy planning in the Federal Trade Commission (1976–81). He taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (1981–92) and was secretary of labor (1993–96) in the first Clinton administration. A neoliberal, Reich supported the development of high-tech industries, economic flexibility, labor-management cooperation, limited government intervention in labor disputes, and the education of a technologically adept workforce. In 1997, he joined the Brandeis Univ. faculty. His books include The Next American Frontier (1983), The Work of Nations (1991), the memoir Locked in the Cabinet (1997), and Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America (2004).