Title:
Saving capitalism : for the many, not the few / Robert B. Reich.
Author:
Reich, Robert B.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Call Number:
HB501 .R359 2015
Abstract:
Outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780385350570
Physical Description:
xvii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
The prevailing view -- The five building blocks of capitalism -- Freedom and power -- The new property -- The new monopoly -- The new contracts -- The new bankruptcy -- The enforcement mechanism -- Summary : the market mechanism as a whole -- The meritocratic myth -- The hidden mechanism of CEO pay -- The subterfuge of Wall Street pay -- The declining bargaining power of the middle -- The rise of the working poor -- The rise of the non-working rich -- Reprise -- The threat to capitalism -- The decline ofcountervailing power -- Restoring countervailing power -- Ending upward pre-distributions -- Reinventing the corporation -- When robots take over -- The citizen's bequest -- New rules.
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