Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability.
His previous books include Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (Zed 2005), and Capitalism\'s Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (Zed 2013)..
He was formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and has previously held positions at the University of the Philippines, UCLA, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
He is currently the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA.
About author(s): Walden Bello is a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization.
Insightful, erudite and passionate, Paper Dragons is a must-read for anyone wishing to prevent the Next financial meltdown.
The only way that we can stop this cycle, Bello argues, is through a fundamental change in the ways that we organise: a shift to cooperative enterprise, respectful of the environment, and which fractures the twin legacies of imperialism and capitalism.
He not only predicts that China might be the site of the Next crash, but that under neoliberalism this will simply keep happening.
Walden Bello traces our recent history of financial crises - from the bursting of Japan\'s \'bubble economy\' in 1990 to Wall Street in 2008 - taking in their political and human ramifications such as rising inequality and environmental degradation.
A bloated real-estate sector, roller-coaster stock market, and rapidly growing shadow-banking sector have all coalesced to create a perfect storm: one that is in danger of taking the rest of the world\'s economy with it.
But beneath the surface lies a network of fissures that look likely to erupt into the Next big financial crash.
Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability
