Amesbury Public Library

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]263) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Saving capitalism

bibliography

904755822

Robert B. Reich

for the many, not the few

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