False dawn : the delusions of global capitalism / John Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, John, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Free enterprise.

Economic policy.

Economic history--1945-.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1998]

Summary:

In a book that effectively predicted the collapse of the Asian markets, John Gray argues that the attempt to impose the Anglo-American-style free market on the world will create a disaster on the scale of Soviet communism. Even America, the supposed flagship of the new civilization, is doomed to moral and social disintegration as it loses ground to other cultures that have never forgotten that the market works best when it is embedded in society. False Dawn is one of the most passionate polemics against the utopia of the free market since Carlyle and Marx.

Contents:

1 From the Great Transformation to the global free market 1

2 Engineering free markets 22

3 What globalization is not 55

4 How global free markets favour the worst kinds of capitalism: a new Gresham's Law? 78

5 The United States and the Utopia of global capitalism 100

6 Anarcho-capitalism in post-communist Russia 133

7 Occidental twilight and the rise of Asia's capitalisms 166

8 The ends of laissez-faire 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-256) and index.

ISBN:

1565845218 :

OCLC:

41085327