MELTDOWN

UK publication date: 27 April 2009

The official publication date for MELTDOWN in the UK is 27 April. I am already getting requests to do meetings about it and I'm volunteering to do a teach-in on it for college students.

The uncorrected proofs of MELTDOWN are out now. If you would like to review the book please contact Zahra Khan at Verso (UK) enquiry@verso.co.uk or Julie McCarroll at Verso in New York versony@versobooks.com. 

I am pleased to report that the book is small enough to go in your pocket and the type is big enough to read. 

If any delegates to the G20 London Summit would like an advance copy, write to me at one of the above email addresses or via the Verso offices listed here.

Published Soon! How the banking system wrecked the world economy

Welcome to this mini-site about my new book MELTDOWN: The End of the Age of Greed. It's published by Verso in April 2009. To pre-order the book on Amazon go here for UK and here for the USA. The book tells the story of the events of Septemer-October 2008: I'm the Economics Editor of BBC Newsnight, so I had a ringside seat. It explains how we got here - from the shadow banking system, to subprime, to the commodities speculation that forced a billion people to go without meals in mid-2008. It also explains why, love it or loathe it, the neo-liberal era is over. There are no graphs and charts - only explanations and a blow by blow account of what I saw. Let me know what you think. 

Paul Mason, January 2009