One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy - Softcover

Frank, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385495048 ISBN 13: 9780385495042

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 2001

Synopsis

In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.

Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic form of organization than democratically elected governments. Refuting the idea that billionaire CEOs are looking out for the interests of the little guy, he argues that "the great euphoria of the late nineties was never as much about the return of good times as it was the giddy triumph of one America over another." Frank is a latter-day Mencken, as readers of his journal The Baffler and his book The Conquest of Cool know. With incisive analysis, passionate advocacy, and razor-sharp wit, he asks where we are headed--and whether we're going to like it when we get there.

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Review:

"A sweeping, savage and witty indictment of American business."
--The New York Times

"This book will infuriate businesspeople-which is precisely why they should read it."
--Harvard Business Review

Synopsis:

In a trenchant, frequently scathing critique of the new capitalism order, a noted social critic condemns "market populism"--the new business culture that identifies markets with democracy and the will of the people--and the right-wing politics of the 1990s and calls for a return to the older American values of economic justice and political democra

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385495048
• ISBN 13: 9780385495042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464