Richard D’Aveni, leading strategy professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, calls for a radical strategic overhaul of American-style capitalism to maintain global supremacy and keep democracy alive

Nearly every country on earth has embraced capitalism—but each has its own unique version. The free-market capitalism invented by the United States in the 18th Century has fierce competition for the first time. D’Aveni makes the timely, compelling—and sure to be controversial—case that in order to win the “capitalist cold war,” policy makers, politicians, and business leaders must alter their extreme free-market philosophy and initiate a more proactive, strategic approach to markets.

Strategic Capitalism breaks global capitalism down into four main types—laissez-faire capitalism, social market capitalism, philanthropic capitalism, and managed capitalism—and lays down the groundwork for strategic interference in America’s national economy to outperform other capitalist systems.

• Publication will coincide with the beginning of the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign, the top issue of which is sure to be the state of the economy and larger economic issues
• D’Aveni has been listed as one of the world’s top 50 business thinkers by CNN, Forbes, and the London Times
• Recipient of the A.T. Kearney Award, D’Aveni is a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and maintains a busy speaking schedule

Richard D’Aveni (Detroit, MI) is Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.