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A 4 page paper that provides an overview of some of the major ideas promoted by Frank in this book. The disparity of income between CEOs and workers in the late 1990s is reported – CEOs make about 475 times the income of blue collar workers. The writer comments on the corporatization of the culture, the economy and politics. The 1990s brought the concept of the market as god, the market as representing democracy. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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You will need to do that when you write your own paper for this class. Just a reminder that TPS provides the research and a model to illustrate how you
might write your own paper.] Frank begins his book by saying that the term economic democracy, to Americans, has always referred everyone having a reasonable standard of living and that
freedom could be meaningful only when poverty and powerlessness no longer existed. This is no longer the case. Democracy has been equated with free trade and for the last hundred
years, any corporation that found itself in trouble with labor used the democracy defense. Political leaders have adopted the opinion and attitude there is something divine about markets, hence Franks
book title. Democracy, culture and politics have become corporatized, according to Frank. What this means is that it is the corporate multi-millionaires who form policy, who drive the economy, and
who represent the culture. There are no opponents, even the media supports this concept, which is no surprise since most of the media outlets are owned by about a dozen
corporations. The perceptions of the American public have been seriously distorted by the corporate millionaires who can change policy and politics. The dot.coms are in great part responsible for the
changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flaunting their millions and using those millions to change the cultural fabric of America. They changed the perceptions of
Americans in terms of what the culture should be. Americans, in general, may have hailed the Horatio Alger type of self-made millionaire because these individuals were able to exploit the
technology before they crashed and burned but Americans were na?ve to the very dramatic changes in politics, the economy and the changes in the cultural fabric of this nation. Frank
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