How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
by Will Hutton
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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 show more disguise that in the main the new world is one of throw away people working in throw away companies. The British are at a loss. The warnings of The State We're In have been amply justified. Will Hutton observes that the trends that so disturbed him twenty years ago have become more marked. Rather than take refuge in nativism and virulent euro-scepticism, Britain must recognize that its problems are largely made at home - and act to change them. With technological possibilities multiplying, a wholesale makeover of the state, business and the financial system is needed to seize the opportunities by being both fairer and more innovative. The aim must be to create an economy, society and democracy in which the mass of citizens flourish. In this compelling and vital new book Hutton spells out how. show lessTags
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Will Hutton is chief executive of the Work Foundation and columnist for the Observer.
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- Economics, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Business
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- 338.941 — Society, government, & culture Economics Production Economic Development And Growth Europe British Isles -- Ireland & Scotland
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- HC256.7 .H86 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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