JEFF RUBIN

Por muy grave que nos parezca la crisis que estamos viviendo, el gran cataclismo está aún por llegar. El motivo: el agotamiento del petróleo y los recursos fósiles. Jeff Rubin, consejero del Ministerio de Finanzas de Ontario y uno de los mayores expertos en energia de Norteamerica, afirma que el origen de la recesion economica no han sido las llamadas "hipotecas basura" sino el agotamiento del petroleo. Cuando remita la crisis actual afirma el autor- el precio del crudo empezara a aumentar hasta unos niveles sin precedentes. Con un estilo extraordinariamente ameno y accesible, explica a los lectores como hemos llegado a esta situacion y como saldremos de ella: recuperando la fabricacion autoctona, favoreciendo los productos que se cultivan y se producen cerca de casa; es decir, haciendo nuestro mundo mas pequeño. Considerado una de las voces mas autorizadas para hablar del panorama economico en un futuro proximo, Rubin anuncia el fin de la globalizacion; una noticia que, como el mismo reconoce, no tiene por que ser mala.

We are constantly being told that globalisation is good for the economy and good for us but it s actually the opposite argues bestselling author Jeff Rubin in this provocative timely book In the pre coronavirus world governments and economists bragged that GDP was growing and unemployment was down But even then real wages had been stagnant for decades union membership had collapsed and full time employment no longer guaranteed you could pay the bills When we emerge from the virus it would be nice to think that living in a country that s getting richer means that you re getting richer too but that s not the way it works anymore Falling tariffs low interest rates global deregulation and tax policies that benefit only the rich have all had the same effect the erosion of the expendable middle class The result growing global inequality is a problem of our own making And solving it won t be easy if we draw on the same ideas about capital and labour right and left that led us to this cliff Articulating a vision that remarkably dovetails with the ideas of both Naomi Klein and Donald Trump The Expendables is an exhilaratingly fresh perspective that is at once humane and irascible fearless and rigorous