Offering broad regional coverage, this annual edition of the Socialist Register examines the place of the city in capitalist crises and ponders how the Left should respond to the Eurozone crisis. The editors advocate taking the banks into the public sector and turning them into a public utility. International contributors in political science, sociology, development studies, geography, and economics offer essays on global and regional issues of the economic crisis in areas such as Ireland, China, Latin America, France, and the US. Some specific subjects include the contradictions of neoliberal climate policy, restructuring the US auto industry, and the Arab uprisings. In addition to 12 essays, the book also contains three papers from the Symposium on the Eurozone Crisis and Left Strategies. There is no subject index. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
