The State We're In: (Revised Edition)

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The most challenging, creative book on the malaise affecting virtually every aspect of British life. The number one bestseller on the hardback list for more than six months, The State We're In is the most explosive analysis of British society to have been published for over thirty years. It is now updated for the paperback edition.

Will Hutton is Chair of the Big Innovation Centre. He was previously editor-in-chief of the Observer, and is the author of many books, including the bestselling The State We're In.

His optimism is unquenchable, his excitement exhilarating and his creativity awesome * Observer * If Will Hutton were a political party I would vote for him -- David Aaronovitch * Independent * Passionately sane, rich in ideas, The State We're In breathes human sense back into economics and eloquently embodies the spirit of a new optimism * Ian McEwan * Hutton acknowledges two great influences: J.M. Keynes and J.K. Galbraith... Hutton's bestseller will do for their theories what Stephen Hawking did for cosmology in A Brief History of Time -- Martin Vander Weyer * Daily Telegraph * Now, in Will Hutton's book, we have at last what we need - an impassioned, and passionately cogent, critique of New Right policy -- John Gray * Guardian *