In the past four years, the Chretien government has slashed our cherished social programs more deeply than Brian Mulroney's Tories ever dared. We were told that Canada's deficit problems left no alternative; international financial markets would cut us off if we didn't start slashing. We did as we were told, and the deficit has all but disappeared. Yet now that we've reached this deficit-free nirvana -- the point at where we were told the world would once again be our oyster -- there are certain things we apparently still can't have, such as jobs and social programs.The popular belief is that we can't have these things because of factors beyond our control --because globalization and technology have left us powerless to acheive them. But in this provocative book, Linda McQuaig argues that we are not really powerless. She shows that the international community in fact has the tools to regulate the world financial system in a way that would harness its enormous energy to our collective advantage. This was done before -- for three prosperous decades after the Second World War -- and can be done again. If anything, advances in computer technology would actually make the regulation of capital easier now.This book challenges one of the most widely held beliefs of our time. And it shows how, if we stopped buying into the cult of impotence, we could create a new order that would put the rights of people before the rights of capital.