Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed Paperback – 18 Oct. 2010 by Paul Mason

Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed Paperback – 18 Oct. 2010 by Paul Mason 
 
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.
 
 
Review
 
A page-turning account Mason is refreshingly clear-eyedand 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
 
About the Author
 
PAUL MASON is the economics editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs program Newsnight and appears frequently on BBC World News America. He has covered globalization and social justice stories from locations around the world, including Latin America, Africa and China. His book Live Working, Die Fighting was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.