Reviews for Power And Resistance In The New World Order

The average rating for Power And Resistance In The New World Order based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-26 00:00:00 Mark Lewis I'm really surprised that I am apparently the first one on Goodreads to have read this book. It is truly excellent- for the right audience. I found it very difficult to "sit down and read" this book; I think it is designed more for people with an extensive background or interest in finance and banking to use as a reference. There seems to be an assumption that the reader will already have some knowledge of the mechanisms of international banking; knowledge that I lack. Much of this book seemed horribly dry to me; a simple stating of historical facts with footnoted references to other works which discuss the implications at length. Nevertheless there was enough that interested even this tyro in banking for me to give the book three stars.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-20 00:00:00 Irving Hernandez How full of himself is Michael Heller? Well, for starters, he names the central irony that underlies his book the "Heller Paradox" . . . The major problem with this book is that Heller spends far too much time placing him at the center of what is a novel but not very complicated idea, rather than elaborating with examples. More specifically, he doesn't elaborate with enough DIFFERENT examples. We hear about storefronts in Russia five times before he eventually devotes an entire chapter to the example, and by the time you reach the chapter, you already know what the conclusion is because the concept isn't difficult to grasp. Indeed, Heller, like a latter-day Adam naming the animals, spends almost all of his time creating an entirely unnecessary new vocabulary that is just a little too winking and self-indulgent. I entered this book very prepared to jump on-board with the concept, but I found that the actual discussion wasn't much more enlightening than the description of the book on the inside flap. It was like going to a movie only to find out that not only are the best parts of the movie in the trailer, but the rest of it is completely annoying. For all of Heller's pomp, there is no reason this should be a book rather than a 70, nay 60, page law review article. But hey, at least the cover is clever.