Prologue: Global drama, Greek tragedy -- Crisis of debt and dignity -- The city and its people -- Assault without warning -- Days of reckoning -- Solidarity to the rescue -- The leisurely in spite of themselves -- Theory of crisis as liminality -- Epilogue: Resilience and praxis.

This is an extraordinary book, huge in every way, one man's personal synthesis of the world we live in, as seen through his own experience of Norway's largest business corporation and much much more. The book and the author have a lot going for them. There are few in-depth anthropological...