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Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
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John Lanchester’s Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay is the unbelievable true story of the economic crisis. We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone’s money and now we’re all paying for it. What went wrong? And will we learn our lesson – or just carry on as before, like celebrating surviving a heart attack with a packet of Rothmans? John Lanchester travels with a cast of characters – including reckless banksters, snoozing regulators, complacent politicians, predatory lenders, credit-drunk spendthrifts, and innocent bystanders to understand deeply and genuinely what is happening and why we feel the way we do. ‘Devastatingly funny … the route map to the crazed world of contemporary finance we have all been waiting for’ Will Self ‘Bang on the money’ Independent ‘Explains the crisis in a way that actually sticks … to my amazement, I finally grasp it’ Janice Turner, The Times ‘Endlessly witty … will turn any reader into an expert within the space of 200 pages’ Jonathan Coe ‘Terrific … there is no better guide to the crazy world of high finance’ GQ John Lanchester is a journalist, novelist and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. His fiction includes Mr Philips, The Debt to Pleasure and Capital. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, with a monthly column in Esquire.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.191 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 |
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| Year Published | 2010-10-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 014104571X |
| About The Author | John Lanchester is a journalist, novelist and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, with a monthly column in Esquire. John's piece on our love affair with the City, 'Cityphilia', generated much response on its publication in January 2008 and indeed predicted a worldwide crash based on the misuse of financial derivatives. In October 2008 he charted the crisis as it had developed over the year in 'Cityphobia', which also attracted much attention as a piece that explained not only what had happened, but how we felt about it. John was raised in South-East Asia and now lives in London. |
This is what George Bernard Shaw might have called An Intelligent Person's Guide to the Crisis of Modern Capitalism, and everyone ought to read it |
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| Other text | Original . . . beautifully written . . . both entertaining and profoundly anger-inducing |
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