| SUPERCAPITALISM The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life Robert B. Reich New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-307-26561-6 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-307-26561-7 | 272pp. | HC/GSI | $25.00 | |
| Page 31: | "General Motors sold more than a million Cheverolet Impalas in 1965..." |
| Typo: S/B "Chevrolet". |
| Page 54: | "...a power large, oligopolistic firms forty years before had routinely exercised, but is now gone." |
| Missing word: S/B "but which is now gone". |
| Page 58: | "As the Web began to be spun, starting as a spider does with just a few threads, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency dubbed it ARPANET." |
| Not exactly. ARPANET preceded the Web by decades. |
| Page 58: | "...in their fervid pursuit of ever more powerful and novel ways to wreak havoc on Soviet communism." |
| Word order: S/B "novel and powerful ways". It simply sounds better. |
| Page 180: | "...leading to the creation of the National Highway Safety Administration..." |
| Missing word: S/B "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration". |
| Page 202: | "A UBS analyst warned his clients..." |
| This acronym is never expanded, nor is anything that might be "UBS" indexed. |
| Page 221: | "In 2006, Congress succumbed to this fallacious logic when it moved to stop Dubai Ports World, owned by the Emir of Dubai, from taking over contracts to run six American ports, fearing a security risk." |
| I don't think Reich makes the case that there was no additional security risk in this takeover. |
| Page 241: | In the general notes for Chapter Four, Reich mentions some books that he found valuable. These include one by an author he identifies as David Cay Johnson. |
| Missing letter: S/B "David Cay Johnston". |
| Pages 255-272: | Index errors. For example, UBS is not indexed, as I note above. Neither is Newton Minow, mentioned on page 52. |
| I did not do any more index checking. |
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