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...
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 t...
Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Thomas Frank traces an idea he calls market populism - the notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of the people.
Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Thomas Frank traces an idea he calls market populism - the notion tha...
Die Forschung hat bisher zu selten versucht, die Geschichte mittelalterlicher Bruderschaften konsequent an ihren historischen Kontext zuruckzubinden und ihre Entwicklung durch vergleichende Analyse verschiedener raumlicher Situationen zu erklaren. Dies ist das Ziel des Buches, dessen drei Fallstudien stadtischen Bruderschaften im Kirchenstaat des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts gewidmet sind. Hauptbeispiel ist Viterbo, die an der Via Francigena gelegene Kommune im Norden Roms, in der religiose Laienvereinigungen seit der zweiten Halfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, trotz lebhafter Anfange, nicht...
Die Forschung hat bisher zu selten versucht, die Geschichte mittelalterlicher Bruderschaften konsequent an ihren historischen Kontext zuruckzubinde...
