The world is at a critical juncture, poised between a surge in wealth and a descent into outright slump. Now Roger Bootle embraces controversy again with a fascinating and frightening book which analyses the prospect of both deflation and depression after the great illusion of the bubble - "money for nothing". And will the property market be the next wealth illusion to self-destruct?
Yet Bootle argues that if we can avoid the twin pitfalls of protectionism and a deflationary slump, there is a positive prospect for a global leap in real wealth in the future through an acceleration in the new, intangible economy - money for nothing.
