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Robert Bernard Reich (; born June 24, 1946) is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Reich is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. He has also been a contributing editor of ''The New Republic'', ''The American Prospect'' (also chairman and founding editor), ''Harvard Business Review'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Wall Street Journal''. Reich is a political commentator on programs including ''Hardball with Chris Matthews'', ''This Week with George Stephanopoulos'', CNBC's ''Kudlow & Company'', and ''APM's Marketplace''. In 2008, ''Time'' magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century, and ''The Wall Street Journal'' in 2008 placed him sixth on its list of the "Most Influential Business Thinkers". He was appointed a member of President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Until 2012, he was married to British-born lawyer, Clare Dalton, with whom he has two sons, Sam and Adam. 〔http://adamreich.org/2013/11/02/will-you-help-my-parents-get-divorced-on-google/〕 He has published 14 books, including the best-sellers ''The Work of Nations'', ''Reason'', ''Supercapitalism'', ''Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future'', and a best-selling e-book, ''Beyond Outrage''. He is also chairman of Common Cause and writes his own blog about the political economy at Robertreich.org. The Robert Reich – Jacob Kornbluth film ''Inequality for All'' won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/2013/01/27/inequality-for-all-wins-sundance-award )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Observer / The Japan Times )〕 ==Early life and career== Reich was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Mildred Dorf (née Freshman) and Edwin Saul Reich, who owned a women's clothing store. As a child, he was bullied, and sought out the protection of older boys; one of them was Michael Schwerner, who would be murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964 for registration of African-American voters. Reich cites this event as an inspiration to "fight the bullies, to protect the powerless, to make sure that the people without a voice have a voice." He attended John Jay High School in Cross River, New York. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating with an A.B. ''summa cum laude'' in 1968 and winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford.〔Turco, Al. ("Democrat Robert Reich says he’s prepared to make a difference in Mass." ), ''Stoneham Independent'', March 20, 2002. Accessed April 21, 2008. "Reich started out as a graduate of John Jay High School, a regional public high school in small-town Cross River, New York. Reich then earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1968 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford where he received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics."〕 While at Dartmouth, Reich is reported to have gone on a date with Hillary Rodham, the future Hillary Clinton, then an undergraduate at Wellesley College. While a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Reich first met Bill Clinton, also a Rhodes Scholar. Although he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam war, he did not pass the physical as he was under the required minimum height of five feet.〔Maraniss, David. First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton. Simon and Schuster. 1995.〕 Reich subsequently earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the ''Yale Law Journal''. At Yale, he was classmates with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas, Michael Medved and Richard Blumenthal. From 1973 to 1974 he served as law clerk to Judge Frank M. Coffin, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and from 1974 to 1976 was Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, Robert Bork. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed him Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Federal Trade Commission. From 1980 until 1992, Reich taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he wrote a series of influential books and articles, including ''The Next American Frontier'' and ''The Work of Nations''. In ''The Next American Frontier'' he blamed the nation's lagging economic growth on "paper entrepreneurialism"—financial and legal gamesmanship that drained the economy of resources needed for better products and services. In ''The Work of Nations'', he argues that a nation's competitiveness depends on the education and skills of its people and the infrastructure that connects them—rather than on the profitability of companies headquartered within it. Private capital, he says, is increasingly global and footloose—while a nation's people—its human capital—constitutes the one resource on which a nation's future standard of living uniquely dependes. He urges policy makers to make such public investments the cornerstone of economic policy. Bill Clinton incorporated Reich's thinking into his 1992 campaign platform, "Putting People First," and after being elected, invited Reich to head his economic transition team. Reich later joined the administration as Secretary of Labor. During his tenure, he implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), successfully promoted increasing the minimum wage, successfully lobbied to pass the School-to-Work Jobs Act, and launched a number of job training programs. In addition, Reich used the office as a platform for focusing national attention on the need for American workers to adapt to the new economy. He advocated that the country provide more opportunities for workers to learn more technology. Reich is diagnosed with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, also known as Fairbanks disease, and stands . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Reich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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