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Call to Action

Call to Action

The UK economy is heading for a disastrous period of austerity and stagnation – GDP growth is unsustainable, debt is increasing, inequality is widening and unemployment is high. But all of these trends can be reversed by moving a few crucial levers in economic policy.

This book offers a bold manifesto for how we can get the economy back on track.

In this vital and timely call to action, leading economist and entrepreneur John Mills and political thinker Bryan Gould provide a searing critique of the decisions behind current UK economic policy and provide a clear step-by-step account of how to revive it, with little or no increase in inflation.

Things cannot go on as they are – this book delivers a fresh roadmap to improve our quality of life and secure Britain’s economic stability for future generations.

Reviews

  • We desperately need radical thinking about how to rebalance the UK economy. This book provides it.

    Roger Bootle, Daily Telegraph

  • There are serious imbalances in the economy that cannot, should not, be ignored. A debate on how they are addressed is long overdue. I very much welcome this book (...) as a positive and thought-provoking contribution to such a debate.

    Ruth Lea CBE

  • Mills and Gould have provided a powerful analysis of Britain's decline and a plan for revival which will work.

    Austin Mitchell MP

About the Author

John Mills

John Mills is an entrepreneur and economist. He is Chairman of John Mills Limited (JML), the company he founded nearly thirty years ago which, based in the UK, sells to some eighty-five countries across the world. He is the author of eight books and numerous pamphlets, bulletins and articles. He is a lifelong Labour supporter with particular interests in the EU as well as economic policy.

John Mills

Bryan Gould

Bryan Gould was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who pursued a career in the UK as a diplomat, Oxford law don, television journalist and politician. He was a member of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet and contested the Labour Party leadership in 1992. He returned to New Zealand to become Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University in 1994. He has written a number of books on politics and economic policy.

Bryan Gould

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