TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reich,Robert B.
TI  - Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few 
SN  - 9780385350570
AV  - HB501 .R359 2015
U1  - 330.973 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - fast
KW  - Kapitalismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kritik
KW  - Capitalisme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - ram
KW  - Démocratie
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - Revenu
KW  - Répartition
KW  - Kapitalism
KW  - sao
KW  - Demokrati
KW  - ekonomiska aspekter
KW  - Inkomstfördelning
KW  - sears
KW  - Förenta staterna
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-263) and index; Pt. I: The free market : The prevailing view ; The five building blocks of capitalism ; Freedom and power ; The new property ; The new monopoly ; The new contracts ; The new bankruptcy ; The enforcement mechanism ; Summary: the market mechanism as a whole -- Pt. II: Work and worth : The meritocratic myth ; The hidden mechanism of CEO pay ; The subterfuge of Wall Street pay ; The declining bargaining power of the middle ; The rise of the working poor ; The rise of the non-working rich -- Pt. III: Countervailing power : Reprise ; The threat to capitalism ; The decline of countervailing power ; Restoring countervailing power ; Ending upward pre-distributions ; Reinventing the corporation ; When robots take over ; The citizen's bequest ; New rules
N2  - Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals the cycles of power and influence that have perpetuated a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of the moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit. He exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by big corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street -- that all workers are paid what they're "worth," a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, corporations must serve shareholders before employees. Ever the pragmatist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity by shoring up the countervailing power of everyone else. Here is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.--Publisher information
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