Market populism
Market populism, coined by American journalist and historian
History
The concept's origins stretch back at least as far as 1933, when political scientist Harold Lasswell wrote:
The propagandaist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy. The respect for individuality arises from the dependence of large scale operations upon the support of the mass and upon experience with the variability of human preferences. The newspaper, the cigarette, the tooth paste, all depend upon a daily mass referendum. The possibility always looms that a new combination of appeals will supersede the old and push old tracts of fixed and specialized capital out of use.[2]
1990s America
The concept of market populism became especially popular during the American
See also
References
- ^ a b Thomas Frank (October 12, 2000). "The Rise of Market Populism". The Nation. The Nation.com. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ Harold Lasswell, "Propaganda", Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , (1934), 12: 527
- ISBN 9780374192037.