Walden Bello is a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization. He is currently the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He was formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and has previously held positions at the University of the Philippines, UCLA, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. His previous books include Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (Zed 2005), and Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2013).

• 1. Introduction: Will China be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis?2. Crisis in Wall Street and the Keynesian Response3. Europe: Social Democracy’s Faustian Pact with Global Finance4. Asia and Finance Capital: From the Japanese Bubble to China’s Financial Time Bomb5. Reforming the Global Financial Architecture: Opportunities Lost, 2008-20186. How to Rebottle the Genie7. Conclusion: Why Financial Reform is Not Enough

A stark warning about the vulnerable state of global financial markets from one of our most acute and prescient thinkers.

Walden Bello is a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization. He is currently the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He was formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and has previously held positions at the University of the Philippines, UCLA, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. His previous books include Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (Zed 2005), and Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2013).

• 1. Introduction: Will China be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis?2. Crisis in Wall Street and the Keynesian Response3. Europe: Social Democracy’s Faustian Pact with Global Finance4. Asia and Finance Capital: From the Japanese Bubble to China’s Financial Time Bomb5. Reforming the Global Financial Architecture: Opportunities Lost, 2008-20186. How to Rebottle the Genie7. Conclusion: Why Financial Reform is Not Enough

A stark warning about the vulnerable state of global financial markets from one of our most acute and prescient thinkers.

Walden Bello is a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization. He is currently the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He was formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and has previously held positions at the University of the Philippines, UCLA, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. His previous books include Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (Zed 2005), and Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2013).

• 1. Introduction: Will China be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis?2. Crisis in Wall Street and the Keynesian Response3. Europe: Social Democracy’s Faustian Pact with Global Finance4. Asia and Finance Capital: From the Japanese Bubble to China’s Financial Time Bomb5. Reforming the Global Financial Architecture: Opportunities Lost, 2008-20186. How to Rebottle the Genie7. Conclusion: Why Financial Reform is Not Enough

A stark warning about the vulnerable state of global financial markets from one of our most acute and prescient thinkers.