Robert Reich Dismisses Trickle-Down Theorybr Commonwealth Club - The Commonwealth Club of Californiabr Robert Reich discusses What's at Stake in the Election: Trickle-Down Versus Bottom-Up EconomicsThe state of the economy and the welfare of American jobs are pressing issues in the current election cycle.Former secretary of labor and author of multiple best sellers, Reich warns that democracy and capitalism are not fundamentally intertwined; there can be one without the other, he says. For this reason, he asserts that understanding the economic policies of the presidential hopefuls is of dire importance.