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Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collectivereflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile"multiversity" of the UniNomade network of international researchers andactivists during the months immediately following the first signals of the currentfinancial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first organic andinterdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in naturebut implicates globalization and neoliberal capitalism.Crisis in the Global Economybegins with the recognition that the current financial crisis is a systemic crisisof the entire capitalistic system as it has been developing since the 1890s. Takingas its premise that today's financial markets are the pulsing heart of cognitivecapitalism, financing the activity of accumulation, Crisis in the Global Economyshows how the flow of capital rewards production that exploits knowledge andcontrols spaces beyond traditional business. The ineffectiveness of theextraordinary economic measures taken by single nation-states over the past fewmonths demonstrates that this crisis is of a completely different order. A financialcrisis that affects the "real economy" shows that financialization is oneof the most recent and perverse articulations of capitalism.The contributions toCrisis in the Global Economy invite us to consider exit strategies from the currentcrisis--strategies that may lead us toward a new horizon of constructing thecommon.