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After three decades into the Greenspan Era, the project of consolidating corporate power entered into its final stage. All the major economic institutions had become either directly under corporate control or were rendered irrelevant to corporate interests and pushed to the margins. Organized labor had all but disappeared from the private sector and government watchdog agencies were either defunded or ignored. Media became wholly absorbed into the sphere of corporate interests as a sales tool and propaganda machine.
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Magnuson, J. (2018). Everyday Neoliberalism. In: Financing the Apocalypse. Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04720-7_6
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