A review by amy142
Doomed to Repeat PB by Bill Fawcett

2.0

I'm afraid I'm going to have to echo the sentiments of many others here- the first half of the book was interesting, if not a little jumbled, but the second was a real struggle to get through. There is far too much focus on the US. At one point you start to wonder whether any other countries had recessions/depressions, because only US examples are used for a number of chapters. These chapters also spend far too long analysing and explaining the 'current' political situation in the US (now a few years old) which was not only not what I was reading the book for, but will also date it extremely quickly.

I was relieved to finally reach the last two chapters, which moved away from the drudgery of economics which had consumed half the book, only to discover they were basically just re-caps of all the examples used in the previous chapters and added almost nothing new.

In conclusion: if you're interested, pick it up for the first few chapters, and then put it down hastily as soon as the word 'recession' appears.