Against the Flow - Hardcover

Brittan, Samuel

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ISBN 10: 184354377X ISBN 13: 9781843543770

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2005

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Samuel Brittan has been one of the Financial Times' leading columnists for nearly thirty years. He has also advised numerous Chancellors of the Exchequer on economic policy. Against the Flow collects the most important of these writings from the last three decades. Brittan has established a reputation for elegance of expression, trenchant analysis and tremendous range of reference. All three qualities are powerfully apparent in this collection, as he ranges over the arms trade and US military (which he opposes); the expansion of free markets and a basic income for all (which he supports), as wall as the war on terror, The book also includes his pungent portraits of some heroes and villans, including Keynes, Milton Friedman & Taken together the pieces in Against the Flow amount to a robust defence of classic liberalism.

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About the Author:

Samuel Brittan is a columnist at the Financial Times. His most recent books include Capitalism with a Human Face and Essays, Moral, Political and Economic. He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, an Honorary Doctor of Letters of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and has been awarded the George Orwell, Senior Harold Wincott and Ludwig Erhard prizes. He was knighted in 1993 'for services to economic journalism' and is also a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Against the Flow: Reflections of an Individualist was published by Atlantic in 2005.

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This book is so good that rivals in the field will, like this reviewer, put it down not knowing whether to feel inspiration or despair� What is not merely rare but unique is the combination of coherence, penetration, lucidity, and (above all) challenge to one s preconceptions� Against the Flow is the work of a remarkable journalist, a scholar and a profound thinker. Read it. Economist

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