“A serious and finely argued attack on contemporary market fundamentalism in a vivid phrasemaking style, which is even entertaining when it is not depressing you with the facts.”—The Guardian
“An ambitious recasting of pensions strategy for an aging society.”—Göran Therborn, New Left Review
“An impressive book … Blackburn argues that the hard-won state systems and the private pensions that supplement them have come under threat.”—New York Review of Books
“Blackburn’s book is a serious and finely argued attack on contemporary market fundamentalism in a vivid phrasemaking style.”—Steven Poole, Guardian
