Download or read book The Spectre at the Feast written by Andrew Gamble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long feast of prosperity in the western world, the crisis in the financial markets has conjured up an old spectre – the spectre of capitalist crisis, which many thought had been finally exorcised. On past experience, a full-blown capitalist crisis would bring with it the threat of slump, collapse, polarisation, conflict, and even war, spreading to all parts of the global economy - hence the great efforts being made to contain the present downturn. This important new book by a leading authority sets the financial crisis of 2007/8 in historical context and assesses its global consequences, how far it might go, and what is to be done.