Ebook: The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System

Table of Contents; PART ONE: Introduction; I. Economic Succession; The Missing Link; The "C"-Word; This Book; Disclaimer; Structural Arguments; II. Growing Up Global; A New World Order; From Yonkers to Wharton; New Dawn for Business; Robert McNamara, Enforcer; Forty Years Later; III. The Copenhagen Conundrum; Carbon Debt; Cochabamba, Bolivia; The Cancún Conundrum; The Morales Conundrum; PART TWO: The Fatal Flaws of Capitalism; IV. Intrinsic Amorality & Corporate Schizophrenia; Is Greed Good?; Everyday Life in Advertising; Are Corporations People?; Corporations Are Machines.;In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problems of capitalism. Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system:?What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources. Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource shortages, is only the s.