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Author: Harry Shutt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 13.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781848134225
ISBN 10: 1848134223
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 September 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Identifies an impressive array of potential problems.' - The Christian Science Monitor 'Shutt is one of the few to expose capitalism?s lies and imperfections, faults that critically threaten our democratic survival.' - Publishers Weekly 'In this thoughtful treatment of the current economic scene, one feels convinced that the collapse of Western civilization as we know it is at hand.' - Library Journal 'Offers no easy answers, but suggests the West is going to have to face the fact that profit-maximising capitalism has run its course.' - Tribune 'Based on wide knowledge, well documented source material and sharp analysis, everyone who reads it will learn from it...' - Liberation
Shutt [has] a message for every saver and investor: a crash of 1929 proportions is almost inevitable * Dan Atkinson in The Guardian (on the first edition of this book) * This has been the most interesting discussion with an economist I have ever had in my life * George Galloway, Press TV * Based on wide knowledge, well documented source material and sharp analysis, everyone who reads it will learn from it... * Liberation * In this thoughtful treatment of the current economic scene, one feels convinced that the collapse of Western civilization as we know it is at hand. * Library Journal * Shutt is one of the few to expose capitalism's lies and imperfections, faults that critically threaten our democratic survival. * Publishers Weekly * Identifies an impressive array of potential problems. * The Christian Science Monitor * Offers no easy answers, but suggests the West is going to have to face the fact that profit-maximising capitalism has run its course. * Tribune *
'Identifies an impressive array of potential problems.' - The Christian Science Monitor 'Shutt is one of the few to expose capitalism's lies and imperfections, faults that critically threaten our democratic survival.' - Publishers Weekly 'In this thoughtful treatment of the current economic scene, one feels convinced that the collapse of Western civilization as we know it is at hand.' - Library Journal 'Offers no easy answers, but suggests the West is going to have to face the fact that profit-maximising capitalism has run its course.' - Tribune 'Based on wide knowledge, well documented source material and sharp analysis, everyone who reads it will learn from it...' - Liberation 'This has been the most interesting discussion with an economist I have ever had in my life' George Galloway, Press TV 'Shutt [has] a message for every saver and investor: a crash of 1929 proportions is almost inevitable' - Dan Atkinson in The Guardian (on the first edition of this book)
Author Information
Harry Shutt was educated at Oxford and Warwick Universities. He worked for six years in the Development and Planning Division of the Economist Intelligence Unit. He then moved to the Research Department of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (1973-76) and subsequently became Chief Economist at the Fund for Research and Investment for the Development of Africa (1977-79). Since then he has been an independent economic consultant. His books include 'The Myth of Free Trade: Patterns of Protectionism Since 1945', (1985), 'The Trouble with Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure', (Zed 1999), 'A New Democracy: Alternatives to a Bankrupt World Order' (Zed 2001) and 'The Decline of Capitalism: Can a Self-Regulated Profits System Survive (Zed 2004).
