The Gods That Failed
Autor Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2009
Since the late Sixties, control of our economy has passed into the hands of a new elite of super-rich free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions. These New Olympians, so named because of their remoteness from everyday life and their lack of accountability, are unconcerned with — in fact, hostile to — job security, social tranquility and the traditional middle-class aspiration for both the good life and the quiet life.
This group has sought to insulate itself from democratic challenge and to make “irreversible” the legal changes from which it has profited so enormously. Aside from the obnoxious principles involved, the rule of this financial elite has brought not prosperity but sluggish growth in living standards, a debt explosion, and now a major crisis of international proportions as a vast borrowing bubble starts to deflate.
Elliott and Atkinson argue that the coming crisis will shatter all remaining faith in the empty dogmas of “shareholder value” and “labour flexibility.”
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780099523680
ISBN-10: 009952368X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 009952368X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson are Economics Editors of the Guardian and the Daily Mail respectively. They are the co-authors of Fantasy Island and The Age of Insecurity.
Recenzii
“The most entertaining effort to identify those to blame for the credit crunch.”
— Economist
“Agree or disagree, you should read this book. As the crunch intensifies, these critics are out in force and the most influential of their books will undoubtedly turn out to be this readable yet controversial tome.”
— City A.M.
"Agree, or disagree, you should read this book... As the crunch intensifies these critics are out in force - and the most influential of their books will undoubtedly turn out to be this readable yet controversial tome" City A.M. "Well written and witty" Daily Telegraph "Has withstood the test of time, despite being published before the events of this autumn - largely because the authors took such a pessimistic, not to mention dim, view of global finance in the first place...a rollicking, acerbic account of the bubble and its collapse" Daily Telegraph "A superbly timed, trenchant analysis of the Anglo-American political culture that has turned the sober profession of banking into a supercasino where the house always wins" -- Misha Glenny New Statesman "The arrogance of the view that the boom and bust cycle had been abolished, and the inevitability of the bust are vividly brought out in The Gods That Failed" Observer
— Economist
“Agree or disagree, you should read this book. As the crunch intensifies, these critics are out in force and the most influential of their books will undoubtedly turn out to be this readable yet controversial tome.”
— City A.M.
"Agree, or disagree, you should read this book... As the crunch intensifies these critics are out in force - and the most influential of their books will undoubtedly turn out to be this readable yet controversial tome" City A.M. "Well written and witty" Daily Telegraph "Has withstood the test of time, despite being published before the events of this autumn - largely because the authors took such a pessimistic, not to mention dim, view of global finance in the first place...a rollicking, acerbic account of the bubble and its collapse" Daily Telegraph "A superbly timed, trenchant analysis of the Anglo-American political culture that has turned the sober profession of banking into a supercasino where the house always wins" -- Misha Glenny New Statesman "The arrogance of the view that the boom and bust cycle had been abolished, and the inevitability of the bust are vividly brought out in The Gods That Failed" Observer