In the Crisis of Global Capitalism, the author dissects the current crisis and economic theory in general, revealing hoe theoretical assumptions have combined with human behavior to lead to today's mess. He shows how unquestionsing faith in market forces blind us to crucials instabilities, and how those instabilities have chained-reacted to cause the current crisis-a crisis that has the potential to get much, much worse. But there is a way out, and it involves embracing the concept of the open society. And by doing so we can save not just our financial system, but our civilization