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Article: ``One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy'' by Thomas Frank; Doubleday.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 15, 2002
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The 1990s are congealing in our collective memories as the "Dot-Com Decade." It's a simple and amusing concept, but one that also misses a far more profound cultural shift that occurred during the Clinton years.
In reality, the 1990s were the decade that marked the triumph of free-market thinking. Thanks to executives, management gurus, public relations people and yes, the media, a grand consensus was formed around the idea that free markets are the solution to all of our ills and that anything _ or anyone _ that stands in their way is the enemy of the people.
With only a few Ralph Nader followers dissenting from the fringe, we find ourselves living in ...
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Article: The Rise of Market Populism: America's New Secular ...
The Nation;
October 30, 2000 ;
700+ words
... ... center of the "New Economy" consensus was a vision of economic democracy as extreme and as militant-sounding as anything to emanate ... governments. This is the central premise of what I call "market populism": that in addition to being mediums of exchange, markets ...
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