Confronting capitalism : real solutions for a troubled economic system
(2015)
By:
Kotler, Philip
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
330.122/KOTLER,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : AMACOM--American Management Association, c2015
EDITION
First Edition
DESCRIPTION
vi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780814436455 (hardcover), 0814436455 (hardcover), 9780814436455, 0814436455 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Preface: creating high performance capitalism -- The persistent 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 -- Epilogue -- Index