Will Hutton

The most challenging, creative book on the malaise effecting virtually every aspect of British life. Devastating in its analysis of how our economic, social and political arrangements have become out of date, and full of original ideas about how they can be modernized.

Will HuttonThe prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, in turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the US must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen. China's effect on our lives is reflected in our house prices, the inequality in our wages and the prices we pay in our shops. Yet China is burdened by a weak enterprise system, growing social protest and environmental degradation. Hutton shows how the contradictions of an authoritarian state are fundamentally disabling and argues that if China is to complete the transition to capitalism upon which it has embarked, it has no choice but to embrace the mechanisms that make business and government accountable to people - from a free press to representative governance. This is a powerful warning that global peace and prosperity depend upon successful transition.

his Time No Mistakes is a brilliant book... an intellectual, historical, political read with some strong themes... read it if you havent already.' Keir Starmer'Represents the beginning of a new, urgent debate.The era that defined economics since the end of the Cold War is now giving way to more activist governments and a very different kind of globalisation, necessitating new economic strategies. At last we are beginning to discuss what they might look like.' New StatesmanA book that could be a blueprint for a better future - if the Labour Party takes it seriously. Will Huttons passionate book shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century and how we can remake a better Britain.Britains inability to invest in itself is at the heart of our problems. The malevolent thread linking the grievous errors of the last forty-five years is the attempt to create the utopia of free markets and a minimal state. The terrible consequences scar our country today.