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Is the big-business era over? The public sure thinks it should be. (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, August, 2002 by Teixeira, Ruy
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IT MAY BE TRUE THAT THE ERA OF big government being over is over, as conservative Christopher Caldwell has argued, done in by President Bush's reluctance to challenge popular spending programs. But it may also be true that the era of big business being over has just begun.
By that, I don't mean that people are ready to storm the barricades and hang the assorted CEOs (though I suppose there might be a hanging-in-effigy here or there). What's happening is much more serious: the loss of a secular faith. Once the public believed that big business, while guilty of occasional ...
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