Cartoon essays by the champion of liberal values, and one of
Time’s
“Ten Most Effective Cabinet Secretaries of the Twentieth Century.”
Anyone who watches the former U.S. Secretary of Labor and
The Daily Show
and CNBC commentator's podcast, viewed on his Inequality Media website, has seen Reich's informal lectures on student debt, social security, and gerrymandering, which he accompanies by quickly drawing cartoons to illustrate his major points. Collected here, for the first time, are short essays, edited from his presentations, and Reich's clean-line, confident illustrations, created with a large sketchpad and magic marker.
Economics in Wonderland
clearly explains the consequences of the disastrous policies of global austerity with humor, insight, passion, and warmth, all of which are on vivid display in words and pictures.