PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... engaging ... [Tooze] largely allows the facts to put the questions he raises into sharp relief ... this book’s great service is that it challenges us to consider the ways in which our institutions and systems, and the assumptions, positions and divisions that undergird them, leave us ill prepared for the next crisis. You don’t need to believe that a never-ending cycle of deficit-funded spending, offset by monetary intervention, is sustainable in order to believe that the scale of spending generally contemplated to deal with an existential threat like climate change, or a societal threat like poverty, is woefully inadequate. You can just believe we need to pay for it ... does gloss over the dangerous underside of Beijing’s authoritarian regime.