TY - BOOK AU - Mason,Paul TI - Meltdown : the end of the age of greed SN - 9781844673964 AV - HB3722 .M376 2009 U1 - 337 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Verso KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Economic history KW - 1990- KW - Financial crises KW - Capitalism KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Banks and banking KW - International economic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index; Midtown meltdown : the collapse of free-market capitalism -- Hyperdrive blitzkrieg : Wall Street hubris kills the bailout, enrages America -- Financial Krakatoa : from the banking explosion to a volcanic winter of recession -- White shoes : how deregulation made the investment banks all-powerful -- Subprime : how the low-wage economy fuelled high-risk finance -- The big freeze : the credit crunch and the inflation spike of 2007-8 -- Helping is futile : the life and death of neoliberal ideology -- The disrupted wave : on the eve of depression or a new long upswing? ER -