The global financial crisis is changing the world. AFTER THE CRISIS projects this new future, examining the weaknesses in the economic order and reporting on what's happening on the front line. Essays explore the legacy of the past, the limits to growth, the price of complexity and the new globalism with compelling and fresh insight.Writers in this edition include:Gideon Haigh, the rise and fall of 'stupid money';Barbara Gunnell, finance and the East End;Geoffrey Barker, the future of the newspaper;Robert Hillman, surviving the Victorian bushfires;Margot Saville, Sydney's banker-driven boom;Jonathan West, time to rethink globalisation;Ryan Heath, Europe's huge hidden debt;Tom Morton, table manners of the global middle class; Julianne Schultz, towards a sustainable knowledge economy.Fiction: The real thing, by Catherine Harris.Memoir: changing fortunes in Beijing, selling up in Tokyo, the recession comes to Canberra. - from Amzon