Preface: creating high performance capitalism -- The fourteen shortcomings of capitalism -- The persistent problem of poverty -- Growing income inequality -- Worker well-being -- Job creation in the face of growing automation -- The need for companies to cover their social costs -- The exploitation of the environment -- Business cycles and economic instability -- The focus on narrow self-interest -- Dealing with 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 -- Epilogue -- Index
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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