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What's Wrong With American Capitalism?
Innovation Hub
English - August 09, 2019 08:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 310 ratingsNews boston innovation inventions entrepreneurs business economy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Capitalism is a recurring theme among the ever-growing list of Democratic presidential candidates. But many Americans of all political stripes have concerns about our free market economy and whether it is working for them, according to Steven Pearlstein, a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for The Washington Post and author of “Can American Capitalism Survive: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor.”
We talk with Pearlstein about the importance of fairness in economic growth, and consider some ways to reinvent capitalism.