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List of contents
1.Introduction
2.Chapter One The origin of today’s ‘revolutionary situation’
3.Chapter Two The Global Casino, Money and Power
4.Chapter Three The Global Casino, Your Pension and Your Home
5.Chapter Four The Global Casino and Your Daily Bread
6.Chapter Five The Global Casino: Playing Poker with the Energy System
7.Chapter Six The Global Casino and Housing
8.Chapter Seven The Global Casino and Climate
9.Chapter Eight The Global Casino needs System Change
About the author
Ann Pettifor is a political economist with a focus on finance and sovereign debt. She is director of Prime: Policy Research in Macroeconomics, an Honorary Research Fellow at City University, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and has an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University. She is known for her leadership of a campaign that resulted in massive debt cancellation for more than 30 countries - Jubilee 2000. She has served on the board of the UN Development Report and in 2015 was invited onto the economic advisory board by the British Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. She is the author of 'The Real World Economic Outlook', and 'The Coming First World Debt Crisis', and co-authored The Green New Deal and The Economic Consequences of Mr. Osborne.
