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" Confronting capitalism : "
Philip Kotler
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BL
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586467
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b415686
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| Main Entry
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Kotler, Philip
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| Title & Author
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Confronting capitalism : : real solutions for a troubled economic system /\ Philip Kotler
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First Edition
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vi, 248 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780814436455 (hardcover)
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: 0814436455 (hardcover)
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9780814436462 (e-book)
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Includes index
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| Contents
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Preface: creating high performance capitalism -- The fourteen shortcomings of capitalism -- The persistent problem of poverty -- Growing income inequality -- Worker well-being -- Job creation in the face of growing automation -- The need for companies to cover their social costs -- The exploitation of the environment -- Business cycles and economic instability -- The focus on narrow self-interest -- Dealing with 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
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Assesses fourteen major vulnerabilities in the American economic system, and offers solutions for buttressing shortcomings and returning to a more sustainable capitalism
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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
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Capitalism
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Capitalism-- Social aspects
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Economic policy
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330.12/2
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HB501.K5966 2015
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