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EXECUTIVE BOOK RE2nd Lt Michael J. Casta

Robert B ReicThe Work of NatiPreparing Ourselves for 21st-C(Vintage Books, 1991, ISBNThis book challenges the assumptio

conduct their economic affairs. SecretReich dismisses the vestigial thought


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Republicans facilitated the decline oftrue nature of the deterioration liesadopt to the new realities of a globali

A few of the glaring problemsare its inability to nurturework force a declining technand a general movement towardprotectionismThus, the Clinton administration i

programs on health care and education twork force, the Information Super Highwtechnological base, and The North Ameri


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On the other hand, the Wagner Actorganize and eventually form a politicaon par with the mammoth corporations.relationship between the economic triadand labor. The corporations large-scalesupported by labor's mass consumption.done under the auspices of the governmenecessary to intervene. The [Nationaltacit agreement by each party -- busineinvestors, labor, and the public, as regovernment -- to exercise restraint, safor the sake of larger gains for all pa

In fact, the National Bargain wa


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labor intensive high-volume productionvalue production. Those corporations tof technological innovation realize thatransition into a super-symbolic econosystem for making wealth is totally depcommunications and dissemination of datsymbolism. 8 The new emphasis is on apneeds of consumers or what Alvin ToffleIn the high-value enterprise, profitsvolume but from continuous discovery ofsolutions and needs. 9

This new very flexible and responsrequires a new work force and a new sys


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economy. In fact, a nations competitivto the amount of money its citizens savtend to flow to nations with skilledare linked by The threads of the globacomputers, facsimile machines, satellitmonitors, and modems... 1 These threadboundaries making any attempt to disrupto impossible. Nations, in the traditioeconomic autonomy and transforming into

The world is being bifurcated intoregions and high-volume production regieach and you begin to see a similar patstandardized production occurs mainly i


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routine production services, in-personanalytical services.Before an examination of the threeimportant to make a few comments aboutcapital in coming knowledge based econoregion's success is directly related tothat its workers are able to contributeThus workers are becoming the most vitacompetitive enterprise webs. Furthermowealth, is an inexhaustible resource.

does not operate by the laws of diminisfact, ...human capital operates accordiprinciple. Because people learn through


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information specialists, and strategicAs global webs become the domorganization for businesses lAmerican economic region, m nproduction jobs are being losWorld. In the United States, serious divergence of incomsymbolic analysts and the lesroutine producers and in-pers

One's ability to prosper in this norder is completely dependent on the amto contribute to the world economy by u


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According the Reich, the successioin the United States has occurred calthe nature of the global economy has mless dependent on their fellow countryand the in-person servers, for their sActually symbolic analysts have littlthe rest of society. Symbolic analysresponsibility of citizenship, but theare composed only of citizens with incIn this way, symbolic analysts are...sdiverse publics of America into homogewhich their earnings need not be redisfortunate than themselves. 22 This dispopulation has occurred because of the


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being forced to rethink their roles indistribution.The end of the Cold War and tthe new economic paradigm areway in which nations think absecurity.

Today national security is being competitiveness. It is commonly assumthreat, America can redirect its resourdomestic needs. 5 However, Reich argueidentity has been forged in conflict.conflict with communism has come to an


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1.Robert K. Reich. The Work of Nations:21st-Century Capitalism. (New York: Vin264.2.One issue being pursued by the Clintonot mentioned by Reich is the ReinventiFor more on this see David Osborne's wo3.Ibid., page 24.4.Ibid., page 34.5.Ibid., page 68.


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21.Ibid., page 206.

22.Ibid.,23.Ibid.,24.Ibid.,25.Ibid.,

page 268.page 311.

301.317.

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26.B.R. Inman and Daniel F. Burton TecSecurity, Rethinking America's SecuritGregory F. Treverton (New York: W.W. No


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