'Stanford is that rare breed: the teacher who changed your life. He has written a book - both pragmatic and idealistic - with the power to change the world' -- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate and No Logo.

'Jim Stanford explains what's worth trusting in economics and what's not in an accessible way. Read this book' -- Steve Keen, Professor and Head, School of Economics, Politics & History, Kingston University, London, U.K.

'Helps us understand what the newspapers never explain: how these economic crises are a product of the inequalities and incapacity for social foresight that is capitalism's everyday economics' -- Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper

'Quite simply the best critical introduction to economics you can find' -- Frank Stilwell, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia

'Clear, compelling, lively and anger-provoking, all at once' -- Robert Pollin, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, U.S.A.