(Global Research Publishers, Montreal
2010)
Exhaustive, authoritative, accurate, clear,
revealing, enlightening, objective, un-ideologically biased, compelling, and
presented in concise segments are just a few of the things that must be said in
any responsible review of this volume. The current global economic meltdown is
described in ways that reveal the who, what, and where that are accessible to
any interested reader.
It is a book for all moments. Made up of selected
essays by distinguished authors and organized into discrete topics, the book can
be read serially from beginning to end or piecemeal. Pick an essay in a section
whose title provokes your interest whenever you have a half-hour or more of time
to fill. If you're a reader like me, you may want to put the book aside then and
think about what you've just read for a day or two. Then pick it up again and
read another essay or two. Or you can just go straight from essay to essay.
Either way, you will acquire an understanding of this catastrophic event in
human history that few of even the major players will ever understand as well.
Made up of twenty essays organized into five topics, the book describes
the genesis and development of the collapse in ways that exhibit how serious and
intractable it is, and the editors have had the good sense to not indulge in any
Pollyanna prescriptions of how it will all end up with the world being better
off than it ever has been. They have also had the good sense not to present the
crisis as a doomsday event. As such, they present things in ways that show what
went wrong and what needs to be fixed and leave the fixing to us if we can
generate the courage to fix them. This book can be likened to a treasure chest
full of Spanish doubloons, wonderful to possess even if directions for spending
them are absent.
John Kozy, Ph.D.
Chossudovsky &
Marshall: The Global Economic Crisis. The Great Depression of the XXI Century-A
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