Confronting Capitalism : : Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System

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Includes index.
Creating high performance capitalism -- The persistence of poverty -- Income inequality on the rise -- Workers under siege -- Job creation in the face of growing automation -- Companies not covering their "social costs" -- Environment exploitation-- Business cycles and economic instability -- The dangers of narrow self-interest -- The debt burden and financial regulation -- How politics subverts economics -- Capitalism's short-term orientation -- Questionable marketing outputs -- Setting the right GDP growth rate -- Creating happiness as well as goods.
Assesses fourteen major vulnerabilities in the American economic system, and offers solutions for buttressing shortcomings and returning to a more sustainable capitalism.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism shapes the market economies of all the wealthiest and fastest-growing nations. But trouble is cracking its shiny veneer. In the U.S., Europe, and Japan, economic growth has slowed down. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few; natural resources are exploited for short-term profit; and good jobs are hard to find. Kotler explains the major problems undermining capitalism, and delivers a heartening message: We can turn things around.

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