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Saving capitalism : for the many, not the few / Robert B. Reich.

Reich, Robert B., (author.).

Summary:

Outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. --Publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385350570
  • ISBN: 9780385350570
  • Physical Description: xvii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 -- 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 -- Coutervailing power. Reprise ; The threat to capitalism ; The decline of countervailing power ; Restoring countervailing power ; Ending upward distribution ; Reinventing the corporation ; When robots take over ; The citizen's bequest ; New rules.
Subject:
Capitalism > United States.
Democracy > Economic aspects > United States.
Income distribution > United States.

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Jacksonville Main Library 330.973 REI (Text) 36015000671806 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/12/2026

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