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Journalist Barry C. Lynn paints an alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every sector of the American economy.

"After Capitalism is the apex of the life's work of one of the most respected scholars of the American Workplace. For nearly half a century, Seymour Melman has been an influential commentary on capitalism, militarism and their discontents. In After Capitalism he explores a growing trend in capitalist systems worldwide: workplace democracy."--Jacket.

Bogle, founder of Vanguard and developer of the first index mutual fund, believes that corporate America has gone "profoundly wrong ... stressing form over substance, prestige over virtue, money over achievement." Bogle's solutions include increased board oversight, the return to long-term investing, increased emphasis on cash dividends, and valuation based on the capacity of assets to generate cash flow, which creates wealth for investors. He even...

Lists recent events that identify serious flaws in American capitalism, noting the price of affluence on families and the environment, calling for a realignment of power, and sharing examples of beneficial corporate practices.

Weaving historical source material with his own analysis, author Beatty traces the rise of the American corporation, from its beginnings in the 17th century through today, illustrating how it has come to loom over the economy, society, culture, and politics. Through readings made up of historical and contemporary documents, opinion pieces, reportage, biographies, company histories, and scenes from literature, all introduced and explicated by Beatty,...

Offers an analysis of the clash between capitalism and democracy to create a system that has enlarged the economic pie while making democracy less effective, detailing inequities of income and wealth, job insecurity, and the escalating effects of global warming.

"The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In America, shareholders have emerged as dominant while employment is more transitory and market-oriented. In Japan, shareholders are gaining influence but employees still play a key role in corporate strategy and governance....