New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Basic Books. A Member of the Perseus Books, c2012.

1 recurso en línea (338 p.)

I. The problem. -- 1. The American exception. -- 2. Who killed Horatio Alger? -- 3. Crony capitalism American style. -- 4. Crony finance. -- 5. Bailout nation. -- 6. The responsibilities of intellectuals. -- 7. The time for populism. -- II. Solutions -- 8. Equality of opportunity. -- 9. Fighting inequality with competition. -- 10. The need for a market-based ethics. -- 11. Limits to lobbying. -- 12. Simple is beautiful. -- 13. Good and bad takes. -- 14. Reforming finance. -- 15. Data to the people. -- 16. Pro market, not pro business. --

"Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interest, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economist should not merely interpret the world, but should change it for the better. In A Capitalism for the People, Zingales make a forceful philosophical, and at times personal argument that the roots of American capitalism are dying, and that the result is a drift toward the more corrupt systems found throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world. American capitalism, according to Zingales, grew in a unique incubator that provided it with a distinct flavor of competitiveness, a meritocratic nature that fostered trust in markets and faith in mobility. Lately, however, that trust has been eroded by a betrayal of our pro-business elites, whose lobbying has come to dedicate the market rather than be subject to it, and this betrayal has taken place with the complicity of our intellectual class. Because of this trend, much of the country is questioning often with great anger whether the system that has far so long buoyed their hopes has now betrayed them once and far for all. What we are left with is either anti-market pitchfork populism or pro-business technocratic insularity. Neither of these options presents a way to preserve what the author calls "the lighthouse" of American capitalism. Zingales argues that the way forward is pro-market populism, a fostering of truly free and open competition for the good of the people not for the good of big business. Drawing on the historical record of American populism at the turn of the twentieth century, Zingales illustrates how our current circumstances aren't all that different. People in the middle and at the bottom are getting squeezed, while people at the top are only growing richer. The solutions now, as then, are reforms to economic policy that level the playing field. Reforms that may be anti-business (specifically anti-big business), but are squarely pro-market. The question is whether we can once again muster the courage to confront the powers that be." --

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