JOHN GRAY is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement and the author of over a dozen books, including Heresies and the bestselling Straw Dogs. False Dawn has been translated into fourteen languages.
A prophetic book -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of THE BLACK SWAN A powerful analysis of the deepening instability of global capitalism -- George Soros Gray was more right, sooner, than anyone else * Independent * The central message is that we are going to hell in a handcart, as free markets rip up established communities. The idea of a world of liberal democratic and prosperous states on the American model is, he argues, a fantasy ... Gray is right -- Andrew Marr * Independent *