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profits, state power, and national mobilization. Ishii combines Fisher's capitalist realism with Jules
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compounded this position. Rather than catalyzing a desire to seek alternatives to the existing model, the crisis reinforced the notion that modifications must be made within the existing system. Rather than shake it loose from its foundations, the crash confirmed to the populace the necessity of
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