Meltdown is a gripping account of the financial collapse that destroyed the West's investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Covering the development of the crisis from the economic front line, Paul Mason explores the roots of the US and UK's financial hubris, documenting the real-world causes and consequences from the Ford factory, to Wall Street, to the City of London. In this fully updated new edition, he recounts how the credit crunch became a full-blown financial crisis, and explores the impact of this development on capitalist ideology and politics.
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A page-turning account Mason is refreshingly clear-eyed and angry. --Will Hutton, Guardian
What people need is a reliable guide to the financial crisis Meltdown is the book they are looking for. --John Gray, New Statesman
Excellent. Evening Standard 'A lucid and sharply polemical account.' --Oliver Kamm, The Times
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As a consequence of the gross inequalities thrown up by capitalist greed, the suffering that has been created world wide it's no surprise that reactions are taking place aided by information technology and the ease that we the oppressed can communicate effectively with common purpose.
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Our world is changing dramatically. The global economic crisis has given way to social crisis: corrupt and dictatorial politics enmeshed with a global financial elite - and an ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots. In 2011 this profound disconnect found expression in events that we were told had been consigned to history: revolt and revolution. In this compelling new book, Paul Mason sets out to explore the causes and consequences of this new wave of struggle. From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, he charts the new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters who understand how power works. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.
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