[source: False Dawn - The Delusion of Global Capitalism, p. AGE OF GLOBALIZATION WILL BE REMEMBERED AS AN AGE OF FORCED SERVITUDE The age of globalization will be remembered as another turn in the history of servitude. False Dawn - The Delusion of Global Capitalism, p. CRISIS MANAGEMENT IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO STEM OFF COLLAPSE OF GLOBALIZED ECONOMY Large and widening inequalities threaten the political stability of the free market at both national and global levels. It is not easy to see how the American-led concert of the great powers on which today's global market relies can withstand a prolonged setback in the world economy. The policices of crisis management that have averted catastrophe in the recent past will not now be adequate. A breakdown of the present global economic regime could well result from current policies. False Dawn - The Delusion of Global Capitalism, p. GLOBAL MELTDOWN MORE LIKELY BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES Global laissez-faire may break down in an unmanageable crisis of the world's stock markets and financial institutions. The enormous, practically unknowable virtual economy of financial derivatives enhances the risks of a systemic crash. False Dawn - The Delusion of Global Capitalism, p. US COULD BE WORSE OFF THAN IN 1929 WITH SMALLER SCALE CRASH It is becoming fashionable to talk of a re-run of the Great Crash of 1929-32, when the American market fell by 90%, and a global depression ensued. In fact, the scale and depth of the American people's exposure to the stock market is greater now than at that time - or any other. As a result, a fall in the market considerably smaller than than which occurred between 1929-32 could have a larger economic impact. A sustained slide on Wall Street will not be a market correction, but a signal for a major dislocation of the world economy. [source: False Dawn - The Delusion of Global Capitalism, p. A vital condition of reform of the international economy is that it be supported by the world's single most important power. Without active and continuing American endorsement there can be no workable institutions of global governance. But so long as the United States remains committed to a global free market it will veto any such reform. So long as American policy is based on the laissez- faire ideology that informs the Washington consensus there is no prospect if reforming the world economy. [source: False Dawn - The Delusion of Global Capitalism, p.