My course, “Wealth and Poverty,” starts here.
Welcome friends!
My name is Robert Reich. I’m a former secretary of labor and UC Berkeley professor of public policy. I designed this course to give students — and now, you — a deeper understanding of why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly over the last 40 years in the United States, and their consequences.
Even though this isn’t a real classroom and I’m not with you in person, I hope you find this both enjoyable and challenging. Don’t expect to learn by just watching and listening, though. I want you to be an active learner — which means answering questions I pose and putting various puzzle pieces together. I’m not going to tell you what to think. I’m going to try to provoke you into thinking harder and more deeply.
You’ll have my lectures and slides, along with my stories and (attempted) humor — and you’ll see how my students respond to interactive quizzes, puzzles, and short role-playing scenarios. (I’m also posting an abbreviated syllabus with each video so you can do the key readings, should you wish.)
See you in class! Click through below to get started.
