- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; repr edition (19 Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224036882
- ISBN-13: 978-0224036887
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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This is an analysis of the social, political and economic arrangements in Britain which Hutton asserts have become out-of-date. It includes ideas on how he thinks the state can be updated. Hutton argues that the weaknesses of the economy cannot be divorced from the problems in the rest of society. He makes a critique of Britain's institutions and argues that we have an 18th-century state dealing with 20th-century issues. He offers explanations for the attitudes which he thinks prevent Britain from moving forward into the 21st century as a truly modern country.
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Impenetrable.,
By Wotabadbuy (Manchester) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The State We're In: (Revised Edition): Why Britain Is in Crisis and How to Overcome It (Paperback)
Have you ever waded through a badly written report or news article and, having stuck with it, got to the end and thought you were no nearer to being either informed or have the slightest clue as to what the author is trying to communicate?
A few hours of my life which I shall never recover.
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An excellent critique of typical New Right arguments,
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This review is from: The State We're In: (Revised Edition): Why Britain Is in Crisis and How to Overcome It (Paperback)
Although this book is slightly out of date after the abolition of hereditary peers and devolution for Scotland and Wales, it is still worth reading for it's excellent and comprehensive critique of New Right Policy. The book starts with how the Conservatives fused Neo liberal thought with popular policies, creating an electoral machine which won four general elections in a row. It talks about how the Conservatives managed to manipulate the uncodified British constitution to great effect during the 1980's and 1990's.It simultaneously charts the crisis among the British Left, and the European Left in general, and how the New Labour experiment attempted to deal with this. The main thrust of the book is that the last twenty odd years have been an experiment in free market economics which have had serious effects on social cohesion, and given us the lowest paid workforce, yet the highest paid executives in Europe.
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One remarkable analysis,
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This review is from: The State We're In: (Revised Edition): Why Britain Is in Crisis and How to Overcome It (Paperback)
I wanted to review this book, before starting to read Hutton's most recent piece "Them and Us". I read the book back in 1996, in the times of The Trainspotting hysteria in the North of U.K., and its key insights are as informative now as they were 15 years ago. Despite lots of historical and institutional differences, I could learn a lot about the logic and contingencies of the capitalist market economy, one can now observe in other parts of Europe, including Slovakia, my home country. I only wish we also had authors like Hutton who can provide a well-structured, optimistic big picture analysis of a nation's state and prospects...
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