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How Good We Can be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
Will Hutton
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Description for How Good We Can be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
Paperback. A compelling and sharply insightful book that examines the state of Britain today and looks forward to the Britain of tomorrow, from the bestselling author of The State We're In. Num Pages: 304 pages, No illustration. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 128 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 244.
Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it, massive inequality, shrinking opportunity and a society organised to benefit the top 1%. The capacity to create new jobs and start-ups should not disguise that in the main the new world is one of throw away people working ... Read more
Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capitalism that extracts value rather than creates it, massive inequality, shrinking opportunity and a society organised to benefit the top 1%. The capacity to create new jobs and start-ups should not disguise that in the main the new world is one of throw away people working ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
244g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349140087
SKU
V9780349140087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Will Hutton
Will Hutton is Principal of Hertford College, co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre and a columnist for the Observer, where he was Editor, then Editor-in-Chief for four years. He began his career in journalism as economics editor for the BBC's Newsnight and for the Guardian.
Reviews for How Good We Can be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
What New Labour lacked wasn't heart, it was ideas - and if the party is to win power again, it's going to need to listen to people like Will Hutton
Independent on Sunday
[Hutton] writes with passion, controlled anger, and a good deal of evidence about the ills that beset British society in the second decade of this ... Read more
Independent on Sunday
[Hutton] writes with passion, controlled anger, and a good deal of evidence about the ills that beset British society in the second decade of this ... Read more