A well-deserved hatchet job...

...1848 and all that

Nor does Mason offer any solution. The closest he gets is when he calls for a “new more equitable and sustainable form of globalisation – with new treaties; new transnational organisations; [and] a new deal on global currencies”. As an outcome, it is hard to argue with; as a prescription, though, it’s woollier than a Bloomsbury radical’s bobble hat.