Robert Reich (born 1946) is a professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He is best known for being the United States Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the administration of President Bill Clinton. Prior to this, he worked in the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Reich’s career has concentrated on social and economic policy, and he was one of The Wall Street Journal’s Most Influential Business Thinkers of 2008.

Reich has written 18 books about economics and its role in American and wider Western society. He is a co-founder of Inequality Media, a non-profit media company that raises awareness of the growing inequality of wealth and power in America, focusing on labor rights, income and wealth inequality, affordable housing, gerrymandering, and inheritance. Throughout his career, Reich has been pro-union and supportive of a universal basic income, concepts he poses as solutions in Saving Capitalism.

In Saving Capitalism, Reich writes in a direct and approachable voice, and his persona as narrator is friendly and inclusive. He writes in the first person, building intimacy with the reader and fostering a sense of informal conversation. He often employs rhetorical questions to engage and include the reader.