The Spectre at the Feast

"Andrew Gamble is our most formidable exponent of the classical tradition of political economy! He writes with exemplary clarity in limpid English, enlivened with flashes of dry humour! I have learned more from him than from any other political analyst of our generation! The Spectre at the Feast is Gamble at his best! a book that should be compulsory reading in every finance ministry and central bank! [and] the best starting point for the long road to reconstruction that the left now has to take" - David Marquand, New Statesman "Timely and accessible, a must read for anyone interested in the competing explanations of the current financial crisis and possible solutions." - Professor Herman M. Schwartz, University of Virginia, USA "A very timely, eloquent and learned introduction to the nature and causes of capitalist crises. It delivers just what students and citizens need to help navigate through these trying economic times." - Professor Jonathon W. Moses, NTNU, Norway and Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, USA "A highly readable account of the current global crisis, its likely trajectories and possible consequences, embedded in a brief but informed overview of theories of capitalist crisis. I really like the book and, in particular, the clear way in which it draws out the roots of the crisis in the neo-liberal response to the collapse of Keynesianism in the 1970s" - Professor Henk Overbeek, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ANDREW GAMBLE is Professor and Head of Department of Politics, University of Cambridge. His many books include Britain in Decline, The Free Economy and the Strong State and Between Europe and America also published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political Studies Association in 2005.

The Road of Excess; A Brief History of Capitalist Crisis; Globalization and Neo-liberalism; The Politics of Recession; The Global Impact; What is to be Done?