I really do like the book--it's just that it's lacking two things: It doesn't delineate a larger political strategy and it doesn't provide guidance for living life under the current system. Since it doesn't have either of those two items, it can't then connect the two.
Market populism, as I understand it, tells people that their personal financial situation is not a political question. The left would disagree--but then there's a dearth of guidance on how to manage that connection, or tension.
I'm not thinking of _50 Simple Things You Can Do To Escape Market Capitalism_, but I am thinking of a work that puts the small things you can do, both for yourself and for others, in an appropriate perspective. It'd be nice to have the virtues of (for instance) credit unions explained by someone who also explained why they aren't going to change the world, and explained what _would_ change the world. There are also innovations (and Frank acknowledges this in passing) which do--or more realistically, could--actually make people's lives easier or better. Again, it'd be nice to learn these things from someone who also put them in proper perspective.
You know what's an example of sorts? _Steal This Book_. It's full of practical (and quite a bit of non-practical) advice, along with some of the politics connected with the ideas. Where Abbie falls down in that book is in not making clear that change wasn't going to come _because_ you scavenged wire spools to use as tables, but because of the things you did instead of investing time and money in formica. The book has other shortcomings, but that's a relevant one. Another is that Abbie romanticized poverty--I reread _Major Barbara_ a few days ago as people were discussing the small-g gypsy lifestyle, and I believe it was then I started down this line of thought.
All the best,
John A