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It is a stagnant ferment which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.

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In this trenchantly argued book, Mike Davis quantifies the nightmarish mass production of slums that marks the contemporary city. With cool indignation, Davis argues that the exponential growth of slums is no accident but the result of a perfect storm of corrupt leadership, institutional failure, and IMF-imposed Structural Adjustment Programs leading to a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich. Scourge of neo-liberal nostrums, Davis debunks the irresponsible myth of self-help salvation, showing exactly who gets the boot from 'bootstrap capitalism.' Like the work of Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffans over a century ago, this searing indictment makes the shame of our cities urgently clear. -- Michael Sorkin A profound enquiry into an urgent subject ... a brilliant book. -- Arundhati Roy

Impressive - a perceptive and rigorous structural analysis. - David Montgomery, The Nation One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written - brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched. - Village Voice Literary Supplement One of the most trenchant and original analyses of American politics. - Socialist Review

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Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

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