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Grossberg says “what is at stake is not so much the relationships between cultural studies and political economy, but rather the ways in which questions of economics- and contemporary capitalism in particular-are to be articulated into analyses of the politics of culture.” This applies to Mickey Mouse Monopoly’s view of the “merger of corporate power, entertainment, and public pedagogy,” where “Mouse Trapped” showed how these companies had done so, with the exploitation of their employees.