The State We're in: Why Britain is in Crisis and How to Overcome it - Hardcover

Hutton, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224036882 ISBN 13: 9780224036887

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Will Hutton, the Guardian's Economics Editor, is the most respected analyst writing in Britain today. He argues that the weakness of the economy can't be divorced from the problems of the rest of society. This is a root and branch, total critique of our institutions. We have eighteenth century state doing a twentieth century job. Our business doesn't get the investment it needs because of the City's stranglehold on the economy. The cult of the Gentleman is killing creativity. Parliament doesn't get the people's respect because it is unreformed; the government of the revolutionary Margaret Thatcher got lost; the opposition is crippled by its own conservatism. Hutton has uncomfortable explanations for the attitudes that prevent us moving forward into the twenty-first century as a truly modern country. Essential reading.

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Omslag onfris / Cover not so good / 9780224036887 / English literature / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 16 x 24 cm / 352 .pp /

Review:

"His optimism is unquenchable, his excitement exhilarating and his creativity awesome" (Observer)

"If Will Hutton were a political party I would vote for him" (David Aaronovitch Independent)

"Passionately sane, rich in ideas, The State We're In breathes human sense back into economics and eloquently embodies the spirit of a new optimism" (Ian McEwan)

"Hutton acknowledges two great influences: J.M. Keynes and J.K. Galbraith... Hutton's bestseller will do for their theories what Stephen Hawking did for cosmology in A Brief History of Time" (Martin Vander Weyer Daily Telegraph)

"Now, in Will Hutton's book, we have at last what we need - an impassioned, and passionately cogent, critique of New Right policy" (John Gray Guardian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0224036882
• ISBN 13: 9780224036887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352