Mammon's Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now

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We now live in a market state. Is the notion of a common good gone forever? Here, David Marquand shows how we can take back the public realm. In recent years, no Western democracy has been more devoted to money worship than Britain. We now live in a market state. Is the notion of a common good gone forever? Here, David Marquand shows how we can take back the public realm. 'Compellingly readable . . . no one can afford to ignore it.' John Gray, Literary Review 'One of the most original political thinkers of his generation.' Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph 'The 'marketisation' of politics . . . not only erodes our political health, it actually makes us worse people; and Marquand has no qualms about such fierce judgements of value.' Rowan Williams, New Statesman 'No one has voiced the anxiety of the progressive citizen with greater passion or power.' Kenneth O. Morgan, Independent

David Marquand is a former Labour Member of Parliament and Chief Advisor in the Secretariat General of the European Commission. He was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, 1996-2002. His many books include The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics, The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Blair, and Decline of the Public: The Hollowing-out of Citizenship. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Learned Society of Wales. In 2001 he received the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for a lifetime contribution to Political Studies.