Can American Capitalism Survive? : Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won't Make Us Poor.

Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist Steven Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work. Thirty years ago,"maximizing shareholder value" became the new business mantra, ushered in by Gordon Gekko and adopted over time across every layer of our economy. Since then, free market capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from poverty aro...