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Article: Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.(Review)
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- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. By John Mueller. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 335p. $29.95.
Mueller wants us to ask less of democracy than some of its keener advocates have promised; to value capitalism, particularly as a moralizing force, more highly than it has generally been valued; and overall to accept that the two together provide pretty much all we might need. When the two coincide, we are in Ralph's pretty good grocery, Garrison Keillor's fictitious Lake Wobegon store, where, if you cannot get it, you can probably get along without it. After a brief description of the contrasting "image mismatches" to which ...
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