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Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist Steven Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work. Thirty years ago,"maximizing shareholder value" became the new business mantra, ushered in by Gordon Gekko and adopted over time across every layer of our economy. Since then, free market capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from poverty around the world. But in the U.S., almost all of the benefits have been captured by the richest 10%, along with providing justification for bamboozling customers, squeezing employees, avoiding taxes, and leaving communities in the lurch. Today, Americans are quickly losing faith that a free market economy is the best system—they're feeling it in their wallets, and they're showing it in the voting booth. In Can American Capitalism Survive? , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steven Pearlstein chronicles our...

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Author
Pearlstein, Steven
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9781250251459
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Business, Political Science, Economics

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