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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

In the preface to her book, Quart echoes this theme, citing current maladies such as “unstable jobs, unpayable college and medical debt loads…and a byzantine financial and tax system that benefits the wealthiest” (xi). That markets work and public policies fail. Orestes and Conway give an easy, if perhaps unsatisfying, answer.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

This is neoliberalism, which is best understood as a politics in which the state acts to support the concentration of wealth among an elite few through its taxation, spending, and regulatory policies. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.