RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewA lively and compelling account ... Without ever coming out and saying so, Ahamed presents a world-spanning financial system that was rotten to its core, a machine that ran on lies, bribes and greed, busily manufacturing its own political opponents ... A longtime banker and hedge fund adviser, Ahamed knows what he’s doing ... Ahamed tells his story with an easy fluency and a high velocity, while navigating less familiar terrain with great confidence.
PanThe New York Review of BooksThey claim to set an agenda for a new liberal political order, but what they have done is read some economists and argue, again, for deregulation ... The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint ... Readers of Abundance will probably find Malm and Carton’s rhetoric too florid, their diagnosis and their prescription too unrealistic ... The hollowness of Abundance, and its incommensurability with the present crisis of American democracy, is immediately apparent.
