Table of Contents

• PROLOGUE: Reality Bites
• GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Postwar Booms and Busts
• BORROWED TIMES: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession
• ESCAPE VELOCITY: The Power and Impotence of Economic Policies
• THE END OF GROWTH: The Factors Driving Secular Stagnation and the New Mediocre
• RUNNING ON EMPTY: The Resource and Environmental Constraints on Growth
• CIRCLING THE WAGONS: Globalisation in Reverse
• BRIC(S) TO BITS: The Rise and Fall of Emerging Markets
• ECONOMIC APARTHEID: The Impact of Rising Inequality on Growth
• THE END OF TRUST: How a Democracy Deficit Harms Economic Activity
• COLLATERAL DAMAGE: The Fallout for Ordinary Lives
• EPILOGUE: Final Orders
• Notes
• Acknowledgements
• Selected Further Reading
• Index

About the Author

Satyajit Das is an internationally respected expert in finance with over 30 years' experience. He has worked for the 'sell side' (Citicorp Investment Bank and Merrill Lynch), the 'buy side' (as Treasurer of the TNT Group), and as a consultant advising banks, investors, corporations, and central banks worldwide. Das was selected as one of the 50 most influential financial thinkers in the world by Bloomberg in 2014.