This welcome critique of global finance is admirably angry.

Guardian

Paper Dragons looks at the economic dangers building up in the Chinese economy and situates them in world economic developments since the Global Financial Crisis.

Green Left

Walden Bello suggests that, while the next devastating crisis with global ramifications can strike any one of capitalism's many nodes, the immediate threat comes from Asian giant, China. The lesson? Reform of capitalism may be the immediate call, but in the final analysis we must transform how the system works and we live our lives.

C. P. Chandrasekhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Walden Bello argues that fragility remains within the system and points to China as the potential source of the world's next major economic crisis. He raises issues that citizens, policymakers, and financial players ignore at their peril.

Dean Baker, Co-founder and Senior Economist, Center for Economic Policy Research

Walden Bello shows how global capitalism remains structurally prone to financial crises. With clarity and conviction, Bello continues to explain reality lucidly and inspire progressive alternatives.

Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics Jawaharlal Nehru University

'Startling, revelatory, brilliant! An astonishing exposé of the frightening economic details of this moment.

Jerry Mander, author of The Capitalism Papers