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

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

Frank’s target is “market populism”—the widely heldbelief that markets are a more democratic form of organization than democraticallyelected governments. Refuting the idea that billionaire CEOs are looking out forthe interests of the little guy, he argues that “the great euphoria of the late ninetieswas never as much about the return of good times as it was the giddy triumph of oneAmerica over another.” Frank is a latter-day Mencken, as readers of his journal TheBaffler and his book The Conquest of Cool know. With incisive analysis, passionateadvocacy, and razor-sharp wit, he asks where we are headed—and whether we’re goingto like it when we get there.