After that, the book shifts into a critique of the past four decades of free-market economic policy, with particular attention to financial and environmental deregulation, the loosening of antitrust enforcement and free trade.

之后，该书转向对过去四十年的自由市场经济政策的批评，特别关注金融和环境管制的放松、反垄断执法的放松和自由贸易。