How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country

by Will Hutton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408705311
• ISBN13: 9781408705315
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"