The biggest selling politico-economic work since the Second World War. A timely and forward-looking book, ranging widely over a thorough analysis of the contemporary global economic situation, but the argument gradually hones in on a plea for Britain to turn its back on the shareholder-value-obsessed American economic model and adopt the less short-term financial systems in place in continental Europe... The powerful and flawlessly argued assertion - to opt for dependence upon America is madness...