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Brendan Larvor reviews The State We’re In by Will Hutton and explains why consumers aren’t crazy after all. Will Hutton’s The State We’re In offers a many-layered argument. At one level, it is an ...

Among them, the Observer columnist Will Hutton is no stranger to such disappointment. His 1995 bestseller, The State We’re In, surveyed the legacy of Thatcherism—poverty wages, industrial atrophy, ...

The case for a new political economy is laid out in three new books. Obama and the world economy For decades American conservatism defined global politics. Now we are about to witness a seismic cha ...

Will Hutton is a political economist and author of 'The State We're In'. President of the Academy of Social Sciences and host of the We Society podcast, his latest book, This Time No Mistake ...