Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy after the Crisis - Softcover

Legrain, Philippe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034912275X ISBN 13: 9780349122755

Publisher: Abacus, 2011

Synopsis

The financial crisis brought the world to the brink. But now bankers' bonuses are back, house prices are rising again and politicians promise recovery. Is this really sustainable - or do we need to change course?

In this incisive assessment of the post-crisis world, Philippe Legrain looks at what went wrong, and how the world's leaders and financial institutions can learn from their disastrous mistakes. Reporting first-hand from across the globe he sets out the huge dangers ahead - and the opportunities to craft a fairer, safer, richer and greener world.

Wide-ranging, brilliant and impassioned, AFTERSHOCK it is at once a warning from history and a compelling call to arms for the future.

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Review:

'Legrain has that rarest of qualities in these troubled times: he's an optimist. With meticulous reporting and interviews from Iceland to Australia, he sets out a blueprint for a new economic world order' --John Arlidge, Sunday Times

'Legrain has a gift for combining big numbers that offer a sense of the scale of the global build-up . . . This makes his book a particularly good survey of what made up the unpleasant cocktail which the world has yet to digest' --The Economist

'Legrain passes with flying colours . . . This is a book that is big in its breadth of content and vision and refreshingly hopeful about the possibility of harnessing globalisation to the betterment of all mankind' -- Irish Times, Book of the Day

'Legrain provides a timely and amusing account of how we were all effectively mugged by sharp-suited bankers with the connivance of politicians leading up to the virtual meltdown of the global financial system in 2008' --Herald

Book Description:

* Where now for the world, in the wake of the global financial crisis? AFTERSHOCK is out now in paperback - with new material

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 034912275X
• ISBN 13: 9780349122755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448