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Author Kotler, Philip, author.

Title Confronting capitalism : real solutions for a troubled economic system / Philip Kotler.

Publication Info. New York : AMACOM--American Management Association, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.122 KOTLER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.122 K84    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  330.122 KOT    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  330.122 KOT    Check Shelf
Edition First Edition.
Description vi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Summary Assesses fourteen major vulnerabilities in the American economic system, and offers solutions for buttressing shortcomings and returning to a more sustainable capitalism.
Subject Capitalism.
Capitalism -- Social aspects.
Economic policy.
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
Capitalism -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00846453
Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
ISBN 9780814436455 (hardcover)
0814436455 (hardcover)
9780814436462 (e-book)
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