The Age of Insecurity

by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

Book Overview

We live in an era in which the culture and values of big business are dominant. The riptides of capital swirl around the globe ruining entire economies overnight. Directors and chief executives cash in stock options for unimaginable fortunes while whole workforces are "downsized" as companies relocate at a whim. Environmental degradation escalates as the earth's resources are looted. The dream of worldwide prosperity and peace is given the lie from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859842259
• ISBN13: 9781859842256
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

THOUGHT PROVOKING AND EXTREMELY WELL WRITTEN

This is an inteligent, well written and extremely thought provoking book which takes a critical look at the current state of world free market capitalism. The main thrust of the books argument is that governments of the left have given up the fight in the reform of capitalism and in doing so have focussed their intervention onto the citizen, ie from market control to social control. I think this argument is very true looking at the policies of the British 'New Labour' government over the last 2 years. The book gives a very interesting cultural tour over the last 50 years which compliments the politcal sea changes over this period.