THE ROAD FROM RUIN

"Well-written, challenging, uplifting- Bishop and Green bring incisive insight and timely analysis to some of our biggest economic and social topics.. an intelligent and stimulating contribution to a vitally important conversation." -Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

Since the financial collapse of 2008, we're at a crossroads, and decisions about how to reshape a discredited capitalism will profoundly affect whether the coming years will be ones of depression, stagnation, or renewed prosperity. Matthew Bishop and Michael Green take a step back and analyze what can be learned from financial crises of the past-from the Tulip Craze of the seventeenth century through the Great Depression of the 1930s, Japan's Great Deflation, and the Long-Term Capital debacle of the 1990s to the unprecedented interventions of the government during the past year-to set the agenda for a reformed twenty-first-century capitalism. The result is an enlightening perspective on what set us on the road to ruin, as well as road signs to guide us back to prosperity. Matthew Bishop is the U.S. business editor of The Economist and a former faculty member of the London Business School. Michael Green is a London-based writer who previously taught economics at Warsaw University and was a senior official in the British government. Please visit TheRoadfromRuin.com