- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books; Main edition (1 Feb. 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1848872313
- ISBN-13: 978-1848872318
- Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 3 x 24 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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- #4970 in Books > Business, Finance & Law > Economics
- #9258 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Sociology
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And How They Can Give it Back Hardcover – 1 Feb 2010
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Illuminating... Chock-a-block with fascinating facts, insights and theories. Willetts remains one of the few politicians who understands that Britain's social and economic history sets it apart from most other societies and that a form of individualistic capitalism predated the industrial revolution by many centuries. We have always been a nation of cash, contracts, commerce and nuclear families. This makes his book well worth reading... his primary thesis - that baby-boomers are dumping too many of their problems on the young - is spot on. --Allister Heath, Spectator Business
One of the most thoughtful and provocative books to emerge from a politician's processor in the past 20 years... Willetts writes with lucidity, elegance and wit. He has read extraordinarily widely... Any future government is going to be wrestling for some time with the after-effects of the great pinch he describes.
--Howard Davies, Times Higher Education Supplement
`The Pinch is a powerful personal credo, a mine of information, and a solid and remorseless argument. It is the sort of work that gives intellectual spine to a whole career. It assembles facts, it makes brave judgements, and it offers a conclusion that has large, obvious and quite immediate consequences... The author's logic is always careful, his terms defined, his evidence set out and his tangent from the central argument clear... He offers an engaging, sometimes startling tour d'horizon of research and thinking in socio-political theory since David Hume and Adam Smith... His exposition of theories of human altruism is beautifully clear... This book's argument stands comparison with the speeches and treatises of Sir Keith Joseph.' --Spectator
'Though David Willetts is a member of the Tory Shadow-Cabinet, his book takes the voter right above and beyond party politics, suggesting that the big underlying issue facing all major parties at the election - and the one which will face any incoming government - is to what extent we can or should push the costs of maintaining our own lifestyle onto the next generation. It's an intelligently but simply argued case, packed with surprising information. What politics really should be about.' -- Matthew Parris, selecting The Pinch as his 'One book to get to grips with the 2010 General Election' in The Times
About the Author
David Willetts has been the Member of Parliament for Havant since 1992. He has worked at the Treasury, the Number 10 Policy Unit, the Centre for Policy Studies and served as Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government. He has served in the Shadow Cabinet for over a decade, with particular responsibility for education, work and pensions.
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