The End of the Experiment: From Competition to the Foundational Economy
By (Author) Andrew Bowman
By (author) Julie Froud
By (author) Sukhdev Johal
By (author) John Law
By (author) Adam Leaver
By (author) Mick Moran
By (author) Karel Williams
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
3rd June 2014
United Kingdom
Paperback
180
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The
"Their book combines rigour and readability to suggest a better way of organising the fundamentals of economic life as a way out of the current impasse. Such a radical strategy is essential to replace the current vacuum in ideas, resulting in a dispirited economic consensus and voter apathy. Reading this book should help remove the need for a question mark in its title."
(New Classics Website, Aug 2014)
Michael Moran, Andrew Bowman, Julie Froud, John Law, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams are members of the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC)
Sukhdev Johal is Chair in Accounting & Strategy at Queen Mary University of London