Book description
Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster" and a "powerful challenge to economic orthodoxy," False Dawn shows that the attempt to impose the Anglo-American-style free market on the world will create a disaster, possibly on the scale of Soviet communism. Even…
Why read it?
1 author picked False Dawn as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because it helped me understand why the Washington Consensus policies of unchecked globalism, including free trade and unregulated markets, are inequitable and destabilizing. It convincingly explains why they have never been and never will be truly accepted by other countries.
Importantly, it helped me to understand how their application in the US has created the conditions that are causing its own incipient turn away from free trade and unregulated markets. Written with great clarity, it freed me to think more broadly about alternatives.
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