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Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday LifeUser Review - Keith - GoodreadsThe premise of this book is extremely simple: The balance between democracy and capitalism has been thrown off equilibrium. The reason is not a secret conspiracy between DC and Wall Street to keep the ... Read full review Review: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday LifeUser Review - Geof Morris - GoodreadsSo Reich spends the first half or so of the book setting up the framed argument: what he calls democratic capitalism, but what I would call oligopolic capitalism, served the common good ... Read full review Related books
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