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Paperback. Minor shelf wear, remains very good
t is a very unusual for a book of ideas both to have an effect on policy makers and catch the popular imagination which THE STATE WE'RE IN triumphantly achieved. THE WORLD WE'RE IN could affect the future of Britain. Questioning whether capitalism is monolithic or reflects the distinct civilisation in which the market economy is embedded, Will Hutton calls for Europe to create a unified countervailing balance to the globally exported American model - a model which accepts a high degree of inequality and social regulation in return for capitalist vitality and is increasingly being interpreted through a fundamentalist prism. Washington may be the new Rome but the world will be a better and safer place if its ambitions are balanced and it is this which makes the single currency so important. The Euro is the sole potential rival to the dollar and THE WORLD WE'RE IN, a powerful analysis of the world market to be published before the British referendum, is as political as it is profound.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316860819
SKU
KTJ0025791
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Will Hutton
Will Hutton was Editor of the Observer for 3 years and now runs the Industrial Society.
Reviews for The World We're In
'Written with typical passion and command of a battery of facts, Will Hutton's The World We're In is a fierce attack on the politics of Euroscepticism and US economic conservatism. Hutton has already established his credentials as one of the leading liberal economic thinkers on the British State with his bestselling The State We're In. In The World We're In he widens his focus to discuss the global economy and the fraught relations between the US and Europe in the aftermath of September 11. Hutton argues that "if the rest of the world is not careful, our future will be to accept globalisation almost entirely on American conservative terms." He believes that the great tradition of liberalism in the US is in retreat, that "America is the most unequal society in the industrialised West", and that claims regarding its economic supremacy and efficiency have been hugely exaggerated. For Hutton, the future lies with the European Union's more inclusive and liberal approach towards politics and economics. The book skilfully charts its way through the different historical, economic and philosophical approaches to land, law and profit that have defined the European and American traditions, concluding that Europe offers a better "scope within globalisation for different cultures and approaches to capitalism to flourish." For Hutton, this involves a philosophical belief in the existence of a civic society and a flourishing society, a "decentralised State, consensual labour relations" and a stakeholder ethos that America has always lacked. He admits that this "is a book for the idea of Europe", that also envisages the United Kingdom at the heart of Europe, not Washington. Marshalling an impressive array of economic data alongside an impassioned belief in radical democracy, The World We're In is an important addition to the urgent discussions regarding the world we want.' - Jerry Brotton "a timely and forward-looking book...Hutton's powerful and flawlessly argued assertion is that to opt for dependence upon America is madness' - Independent on Sunday