New Society Publishers Ltd.
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Reinventing collapse; the Soviet experience and American prospects, rev.ed.
Orlov, Dmitry.
New Society Publishers Ltd., ©2011 195 p. $17.95 HC106
978-0-86571-685-8
The author, a Russian-born engineer who immigrated to the United States in the 1970s, predicts that the United States is headed the way of the Soviet Union, driven to economic collapse by the combined factors of peaked oil production, a large trade imbalance and the related offshoring of technology production, a runaway military budget, and huge levels of foreign debt. He considers how a total economic collapse of the US could play out and gives advice on how government and ordinary Americans can respond to such a scenario, drawing on his observations of the post-Soviet economic collapse in his native Russia. Distributed in the US by Consortium Books Sales and Distribution. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
