Steven Pearlstein Livres

A Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work.

"Thirty years ago, 'greed is good' and 'maximizing shareholder value' became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our business culture, economy, and politics. Pearlstein argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work. He challenges the theories being taught in business schools and in boardrooms, believing that we're missing a key tenet of Adam Smith's wealth of nations: without trust and social capital, democratic capitalism cannot survive"--Adapted from back cover