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About this book
An insightful analysis by the bestselling author Guy Fraser-Sampsonof the reasons why politicians have put the worldintofinancial ruin and havefound noway out
Around the world, countries are struggling to deal with the aftermath of the 2007–08 banking crisis, hefty budget deficits, the threat of ongoing recession, and the rising costs of pension provision. The news is full of doom and gloom about the ever-growing messthe countries arein. But the real problem is that the very people who should be sorting it out are instead making it worse. In an entertaining mix of historical narrative and conceptual analysis, Guy Fraser-Sampson argues that the present crisis has in fact been several decades in the making, and is the inevitable outcome of years of neglect and betrayal by thosetrusted to serve and govern over the public. Taking Britain as his test case, he looks back at key economic policy decisions since 1919 to reveal how politicians through the ages have gotten it so badly wrong. In The Mess We're In, Fraser-Sampson sets out the facts to support his claim that, at every opportunity, the political elite has prioritized self-interest over long-term national wellbeing and have caused the current situation; now the time has come for them to be called into account.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- One: ‘Just why are we in this mess?’
- Two: The Tangled Knot
- Three: Money and Inflation
- Four: Markets and Crashes
- Five: Keynes and the Great Depression
- Six: Keynes’s General Theory
- Seven: Marx and the Marshall Plan
- Eight: Building a New Jerusalem
- Nine: ‘A little local difficulty’
- Ten: The Chickens Come Home to Roost
- Eleven: The Thatcher Revolution
- Twelve: A Last Chance Squandered
- Thirteen: ‘Certificates of Dubious Odour’
- Fourteen: Planning to Fight the Last War
- Fifteen: Drinking Poison Can Be Dangerous
- Sixteen: Democracy and Totalitarianism
- Seventeen: The Great Pensions Disaster
- Eighteen: ‘New Ideas From Dead Economists’
- Nineteen: Getting Ourselves Out of the Mess
- Index