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Contents

Introduction | Globalization’s Debacle: Crisis and Opportunity

Part I: The Destructive Dynamics of Finance Capital

Chapter 1 | Why and How Finance Became Dominant

A primer on Wall Street meltdown

Recovery recedes, convulsion looms

Chapter 2 | The US: Cutting Edge of Crisis

Capitalism in an apocalyptic mood

The political consequences of stagnation

Lessons of the Obama debacle

Chapter 3 | Europe’s Tragic Spiral

The Celtic Tiger follows the Asian Tigers to extinction

Greece: same tragedy, different scripts

Germany’s Social Democrats and the European crisis

Chapter 4 | Invulnerable Asia?

Chain-gang economics

China lassoes its neighbors

Will China save the world from depression?

Part II: Globalization in Crisis

Chapter 5 | The Real Economy of the Global Economy

Capital is a fickle lover

The Apple connection

Labor trafficking: modern-day slave trade

Destroying African agriculture

Chapter 6 | Capitalism and the Environment

Climate and capitalism in Copenhagen

Can capitalism survive climate change?

Breaking the climate stalemate

Seven billion … and rising

Chapter 7 | The End of Multilateralism?

The crisis of multilateralism

The Dracula round

U20: will the global economy resurface?

Part III: Competing Alternatives

Chapter 8 | Keynesianism in the Breach

Keynes: a man for this season?

The coming capitalist consensus

Chapter 9 | Resistance and Transformation

Elites vs greens in the global South

Defy the creditors and get away with it

The Arab revolutions and the democratic imagination

The World Social Forum at the crossroads

Conclusion | Deglobalization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Index