TY - BOOK AU - Kotler,Philip TI - Confronting capitalism: real solutions for a troubled economic system SN - 9780814436455 AV - HB501 .K5966 2015 U1 - 330.12/2 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - AMACOM--American Management Association KW - Capitalism KW - Social aspects KW - Economic policy KW - fast KW - Kapitalismus KW - gnd KW - Wirtschaftspolitik KW - Sozialpolitik KW - Armut KW - Kapitalism KW - sociala aspekter KW - sao KW - Ekonomisk politik KW - stw KW - Wirtschaftslage KW - Soziale Lage KW - USA KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes index; Introduction : 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 -- Epilogue N2 - 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 UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/799817686.pdf ER -