The pound and the fury

<p><i>What's wrong with the UK economy? Everyone has an opinion. But no one has an answer. Why?</i><br><br>For decades our economy has failed to work for ordinary citizens: stagnant wages have been combined with underemployment and rising costs of basic goods like healthcare education and housing. At the same time a small minority of the population make obscene profits while in the background we continue to hurtle headlong into an environmental emergency. While there is no shortage of anger and anti-elite sentiment expressed in what is often referred to as the 'culture wars' no significant challenge to the dominant economic model has broken into the mainstream.<br><br><i>The pound and the fury </i>argues that behind this failure of imagination are a set of myths about how the economy works myths that stifle debate and block change. This book analyses the origins of these myths and how they might be dispelled at a time when away from the public gaze economic theory is opening up new possibilities of economic action. Possibilities that as we emerge from the chaos of COVID-19 could lead to the radical structural changes we desperately need.</p>