Facebook Twitter Pinterest
£10.68
  • RRP: £10.99
  • You Save: £0.31 (3%)
FREE Delivery in the UK.
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.
Dispatch to:
France - Mainland
To see addresses, please
Or
Please enter a valid UK postcode.
Or

Have one to sell?
Sell on Amazon
Flip to back Flip to front
Listen Playing... Paused   You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more
See all 2 images

Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed Paperback – 18 Oct 2010

by
Paul Mason (Author)
› Visit Amazon's Paul Mason Page
search results for this author
Paul Mason (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 29 customer reviews
See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Amazon Price
New from Used from
Paperback
"Please retry"
£10.68
£5.59 £6.76
Want it delivered by Thursday, 24 Nov.? Order within 27 hrs 53 mins and choose Priority Delivery at checkout. Details
Note: This item is eligible for click and collect. Details
Pick up your parcel at a time and place that suits you.
  • Choose from over 13,000 locations across the UK
  • Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional cost
How to order to an Amazon Pickup Location?
  1. Find your preferred location and add it to your address book
  2. Dispatch to this address when you check out
Learn more
Top Deals in Books
See the latest top deals in Books. Shop now
£10.68 FREE Delivery in the UK. In stock. Dispatched from and sold by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.
click to open popover

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested In These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)

Frequently Bought Together

  • Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
  • +
  • Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Total price: £20.67
Buy the selected items together

Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

  • Apple
  • Android
  • Windows Phone

To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
Top Deals in Books
See the latest top deals in Books. Shop now

Product details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Verso; 2nd edition (18 Oct. 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844676536
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844676538
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested In These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)

Product Description

Review

A page-turning account Mason is refreshingly clear-eyedand angry. --Will Hutton, Guardian

What people need is a reliable guide to the financial crisis Meltdown is the book they are looking for. --John Gray, New Statesman

Excellent. Evening Standard 'A lucid and sharply polemical account.' --Oliver Kamm, The Times

About the Author

PAUL MASON is the economics editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs program Newsnight and appears frequently on BBC World News America. He has covered globalization and social justice stories from locations around the world, including Latin America, Africa and China. His book Live Working, Die Fighting was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsRead EVERYTHING he has written. You will gain deep understanding of why we are in this mess. And so very readable he is.
By irene melia on 18 Aug. 2014
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
If you want a clear well researched accessible true account of why the world is in the state it is in buy all Paul Mason's books - I have. You will find a man of integrity, grit, whose deep understanding, experience, intelligence and knowledge is harnessed for the common good. Immensely readable as are all his texts. It is a pity he is not Prime Minister - then we would be sure that he would put OUR money where his mouth is. One thing is for sure, we can't afford the rich any more. Those who have been allowed and enabled to place themselves in the unholy position of draining the earth's resources into their pockets which are then tightly closed. It is a myth that these people are wealth creators and gifted. They are wealth takers and do not create possibility or work or futures other than their own. The pockets need to be gently opened to allow our wealth to flow back into the world economies and we need policies in place to never again enable them to raid the till when they think nobody is looking. The historical, ethical truth backed up by absolute indisputable facts is the source of Paul Mason's literature. We need truth givers and good people - he is both. We could do with a bit of that in politics.
Comment 13 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsCogent, incisive, profound - this is an important book
By T. J. Rich on 14 July 2009
Format: Paperback
Mason is BBC Newsnight's economics editor and one of the most cogent, far-thinking and incisive writers on business I've read. 'Meltdown' was written as the financial crisis unfolded, and it reads both as a cold eye on the fundamental flaws in the global capital markets and an on-the-spot report detailing the hot-blooded wrestling that has taken place in government offices and corporate boardrooms. The roots of the current crisis are complex, but it's disappointing that so many business writers (and business people) have collapsed into intellectual nihilism in response. It's not impossible to understand what structured investment vehicles are, and why they're affecting almost all of us in some way right now. Mason not only explains what went on, he also provides a view on what is going on, and what it might mean for the future of business, finance, workers, international relations and the world. This book is a rare example of business writing that combines clarity, sophistication and personal perspective, but it's also an invaluable hint of business issues to come. And - refreshingly - it's a delight to read: concise, personable, flowing. Highest common denominator writing.
Comment 53 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsPowerful account of the crisis
By William Podmore on 10 Jun. 2009
Format: Paperback
Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, has written a powerful study of the crash. He surveys the financial meltdown, the decade that led to the disaster, and the life and death of neo-liberalism.

Gordon Brown told us in June 2007 that deregulating Britain's banks would be `the beginning of a new golden age'. The bankers lied that they took high risks so they deserved their high rewards. But they took the profits from industrial production and put them into finance, not back into industry: "the end result is that profits are funnelled from ordinary savers into the pockets of the rich."

The bankers created the credit bubbles in dotcom, housing and commodities. Speculators bought technologies, houses, oil, rice, wheat and soya, until all the bubbles burst, laying waste those parts of the real economy.

After the financial crisis, the governments bought the banks' debts as dearly as possible, so as not to penalise them, running up huge debts and printing money, to save the banks, whatever the cost to the economy. There are $10 trillions' worth of toxic loans, only $1 trillion of which has been written off so far.

The world's workforce has doubled since 1979 to three billion. This huge supply of labour has tilted the balance of power from labour towards capital. So now we need to fight smarter for higher wages, and for a different economy.

To do so, workers will have to reject what Mason calls the `low-level, non-ideological, anti-political culture' of the anti-globalisation movement. He points out, "In the same month that half a million American workers would lose their jobs, the main focus of the Non-Governmental Organisations leaflets was `Don't forget aid to Africa'." We should reject the NGOs' slogan `Think globally, act locally'.Read more ›
5 Comments 30 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsA convincing account of the causes and consequences of the global crisis
By Daniel C. Hind on 26 April 2009
Format: Paperback
Paul Mason's Meltdown provides a very useful primer on the financial crisis that began in the Summer of 2007 and is now working its way through the global economy. He is particularly informative and clear about the twists and turns of the various failures of market confidence and the government bailouts that followed. Unlike many commentators, Mason also offers a clear set of proposals for stabilising the financial system in the future.

It is too early to have a definitive account of the crisis. But Mason's book is extremely useful. He also has a good eye for the telling anecdote. I don't often write Amazon reviews but in this case I thought I would make an exception.
1 Comment 22 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsMeltdown
By Germinal on 16 Jan. 2012
Format: Paperback
Economics is difficult for most of us and so a book that clearly explains theories and stops in mid flow to interpret jargon into plain English is welcome. That, for me, is the main strength of Mason's 'Meltdown' - he's provided an explanation of the current economic mess that everyone can understand.

It's a sophisticated analysis as well. History, social conflict, politics as well as economics and business play their role in Mason's work. This is a work of political economy and, as Mason says, political economy is back.

Recommended reading on the current crisis and then followed by David Harvey's 'The Enigma of Capital'.
Comment 6 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Good

Published 11 months ago by geee w
5.0 out of 5 starsRecommended.

This is an insightful and very well informed overview of the ultimate causes of the 2008 financial crash and it's aftermath. Read more

Published on 19 Nov. 2014 by First Time User
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

My dad who is 86 loved this book

Published on 30 Jun. 2014 by Antheadawn nichollsA
5.0 out of 5 starsAn Excellent Read

A comprehensive journalistic (rather than academic) cover of the financial crisis starting in 2008 and the crucial way the unregulated banks brought this about.

Published on 6 Sept. 2013 by Mr James Atherton
5.0 out of 5 starsA really good read

This is wonderfully informative and is written in a very accessible style. Here is a Northern lad, telling this complicated financial and human tale in a way that opens it up and... Read more

Published on 14 Dec. 2012 by Mr. D. Cunningham
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent

Clear and easily digestible overview of the banking crisis from one of the few mainstream journalists worth listening to. Read more

Published on 14 Jan. 2012 by P. Duval
1.0 out of 5 starsShockingly ignorant book

Everytime there is a crisis, leftists try to seize the opportunity and put up a jolly good show, creating the next, bigger one. Read more

Published on 31 Oct. 2011 by Misesfollower
5.0 out of 5 starsDeciphering the crunch.

Paul Mason is a brilliant journalist.His abilities with language and his talent for making the incredibly complex something even I can grasp, is invaluable. Read more

Published on 24 Sept. 2011 by stingyjane
5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliantly written

This is the best book I have ever read on modern economics, its clarity, clear clear sightedness and birds eye view of the events of the financial crash are enlighting because Paul... Read more

Published on 13 July 2011 by J. Maher
3.0 out of 5 starsPredictable, but interesting in its way

The first thing to say is that Paul Mason has a history of being on the (fairly) hard left.
I have no idea what his current political persuasion is, but I think it's unlikely... Read more

Published on 28 April 2011 by MonsterMunch

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

Look for similar items by category

Feedback