“The Gods That Failed”
This is the title of a forthcoming book and a web site to promote discussion on its themes. The book is by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson and the gods are globalisation, communication, liberalisation, privatisation, competition, financialisation, speculation, recklessness, greed, arrogance, oligarchy and excess.
The central argument of the book is that the world’s bankers have delivered chaos, debt and uncertainty – and then blamed the feeble governments that surrendered control of the global economy to them. At a time of credit crunch, falling house prices, soaring oil prices, rising food prices and economic instability, this sounds like a topical work.
A first extract from the book here.