The World We're in

by WillHutton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.28

  Widening his perspective from country (examined in previous volume, The State We're In ) to world, Will Hutton calls for Britain and Europe to offer alternatives to the American Way. Under President Bush America has been forthright in it's isolationism - until the attack on the World Trade Center - but whatever happens next, it is undoubtedly true that Bush will pursue a policy of America first. Hutton argues for a countervailing balance - economically and socially - to the American model. Only, he argues, by making Europe a strong bloc - and that means adopting the euro - will we have the levarage to influence the USA as we would wish, in an attempt to make Europe a safer, more prosperous place.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  t is a very unusual for a book of ideas both to have an effect on policy makers and catch the popular imagination which THE STATE WE'RE IN triumphantly achieved. THE WORLD WE'RE IN could affect the future of Britain. Questioning whether capitalism is monolithic or reflects the distinct civilisation in which the market economy is embedded, Will Hutton calls for Europe to create a unified countervailing balance to the globally exported American model - a model which accepts a high degree of inequality and social regulation in return for capitalist vitality and is increasingly being interpreted through a fundamentalist prism. Washington may be the new Rome but the world will be a better and safer place if its ambitions are balanced and it is this which makes the single currency so important. The Euro is the sole potential rival to the dollar and THE WORLD WE'RE IN, a powerful analysis of the world market to be published before the British referendum, is as political as it is profound.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $17.55

  THE STATE WE'RE IN, Will Hutton's explosive analysis of British society, was the biggest selling politico-economic work since the Second World War. Now, as the world realigns itself in the wake of September 11, Hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be ordered. To understand the global economy, Hutton argues, one must first understand the United States where, over the past 30 years, the forces of conservatism have achieved such supremacy as to reduce liberalism to a term of abuse. The results have been dire: America is a weaker, fragmented society, and its economic strenths are oversold and misunderstood. But Britain and Europe are different: our attitudes towards property, equality, social solidarity and the public realm are strikingly distinct from Amerrica's current conservative leanings. Europe should not be afraid to stand up against the American version of globalisation, and champion the cause of a reinvigorated international society - taking over the mantle now abandoned by the US.