Mismanaged Decline

Are you anxious … or depressed? New Year Blues? Or maybe just fed up with bad news? Then don’t read this book for a few weeks. Much of it is miserable reading, made worse for being clearly well-researched and authoritatively presented. That said, Vicky Pryce and Andy Ross’ Mismanaged Decline  is a lucid, accessible description of many economic  issues where myth often distorts the popular perception. It is at its best analysing the problems of securing GDP growth, immigration and environmental politics and is coruscating on (what the authors regard as) the disastrous self-inflicted consequences of Brexit. Somehow this book morphs from the pessimism of regretful hindsight to a more optimistic view of a future potential realism – but only if politicians and media start being honest with the electorate and stop promoting impossible doctrinaire solutions to curry favour.                         

Well, that should be easy. Shouldn’t it?