The years of living dangerously : Asia - from financial crisis to the new millennium

Vines paints a picture of greed, ignorance and stupidity, challenging some of the well established myths about Asian economies, Asian companies, and Asian markets.

He puts into perspective the events which plunged Asian economies into chaos.He tries to make sense about what happened, to explain how the crisis occured, why it was so devastating, but, more importantly what were and are the underlying forces that gave birth to the crisis and remain in place ready to cause more chaos, or at least more problems.