Press Release Pluto Press, September 1999
Pluto Press is pleased to annouce the publication of Susan George's new book 'The Lugano Report - On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century'. It is available directly from Pluto now or in bookshops from September 1999.
'The Lugano Report' is conceived as the product of a multidisciplinary Working Party conceived by powerful corporate leaders to consider the future of the world economy. The group concludes that it is grossly undermanaged, gravely threatened by its own excesses, prone to ecological collapse and an unlikely candidate for long-term success. How, then, can the winners in the globalisation game guarantee their own comfortable future? There is a way, but one which may be too awful to contemplate.
'The Lugano Report' is Susan George's most ambitious book to date, staking out new territory and taking an entirely different, riskier, approach from her previous work which includes such classics as How the Other Half Dies, A Fate Worse than Debt, Ill Fares the Land and The Debt Boomerang.
Advance praise for The Lugano Report tends to show that she has succeeded:
A brilliant, terrifying book which should be on the bedside of every policy maker in the West... This book deserves to be a bestseller and our common future might be safer as it was
Victoria Brittain
With acid wit and somber truths, The Lugano Report brilliantly portrays, through the eyes of its imagined but all too realistic planners, a world that may be heading for deep trouble.
Noam Chomsky
An extraordinary and original book of exquisite irony, a kind of Catch-22 of capitalism, The Lugano Report is a stunning achievement.
John Pilger
Rigorous and innovative... Guaranteed to enthral the reader and galvanise us to challenge the received wisdom surrounding the globalised economic system which is exposed so brilliantly in The Lugano Report
Glenys Kinnock, MEP
The Lugano Report is brilliant and innovative... A compelling satire, packed with information, this is the work of an author in complete control of her subject. All Susan George's books are incisive and engaging, but this one is even more powerful than its predecessors.
George Monbiot
We believe other readers will agree with these assessments
You can order The Lugano Report directly from Pluto Press:
www.plutobooks.com/order.shtml
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