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

Frank, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 038549503X ISBN 13: 9780385495035

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2000

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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 democracy. 17,500 first printing.

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Praise for One Market Under God:

"Tom Frank is a brilliant pain in the ass. While you may not agree with all he says herein (I threw the book across the room eleven times), his style is always engaging and very frequently funny, and his message-his violent and merciless destruction of the myths of the New Economy-blasts through our willing ignorance and thus must be heard."
-Dave Eggers

"Tom Frank's powerful, incisive, and witty critique of the smug gasbag rhetoric of New Economy gurus like Tom Peters is a work worthy of Mencken and Dwight Macdonald. He doesn't pontificate, he investigates, and his investigation of the link between ad agency 'intellectuals' and 'cult studs' academics, for instance, is a comic tour de force."
-Ron Rosenbaum

"Thomas Frank has cracked the market wide open, laying bare the perversion of reality and abuse of language that corporations, stockbrokers, and much of the academy use to hold the nation in thrall. Read this book. Find out what ails us."
-Earl Shorris

"One Market Under God does for the latter-day market worshippers, cyber-hustlers, and New Economy bubble-blowers what Sinclair Lewis did for the Babbitts and Zenith Chambers of Commerce of the Roaring Twenties."
-Kevin Phillips

"At last, a brave, witty dissent from the hype and cant of the so-called New Economy! Thomas Frank's One Market Under God is an astonishingly well-written argument on behalf of American workers who have seen their jobs disappear, their benefits cut, and their incomes reduced in the name of the great global marketplace...  One Market Under God tells us what we won't read in our glossy personal finance magazines, or hear on our all-business channels: our economic elites finally are getting their revenge for the New Deal, and have replaced our sense of community with the values of one market, under God."
-Terry Golway

"How is it that our gilded age permitted the shining ideal of the yeoman farmer to be replaced by the grubby reality of the day trader? Thomas Frank is the first historian to try to tell the hard story of how the metaphor of the marketplace has vanquished every domain of modernity."
-Jack Hitt

"This great book is like a roaring new version of Thomas Carlyle, with a dash of Tom Wolfe: only the bonfire here is on a much higher flame. As Frank shows, American business has been stripping us of our language in a way that makes Cortés and the conquistadores look like crude amateurs. His new book is an exciting dare to all of us to take the language back."
-Thomas Geoghegan

L'autore:

Thomas Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler, a magazine of cultural criticism. He holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago and is the author of The Conquest of Cool and coeditor of Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler. He has regularly been quoted by, appeared on, or written for National Public Radio, ABC's World News Tonight, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, The Nation, and many other outlets.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 038549503X
• ISBN 13: 9780385495035
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 414