A roadmap to the new normal surprisingly hopeful required reading for the new intake this is an incisive, upbeat vision of how a Labour government could turn things around even in difficult times -- Gaby Hinsliff * Observer *
An economic blueprint for a Starmer administration * New Statesman *
An incisive, challenging and brilliantly researched agenda to deliver what Britain needs: inclusive and sustainable growth. -- Gordon Brown
Bell is an excellent writer with a talent for putting things so clearly and crisply that they lodge easily in the brain ... Although Bell is pretty bleak about Britains condition, he is refreshingly optimistic about our chances of catching up with our peers -- Emma Duncan * The Times *
No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy debates Torsten Bell writes with optimism and clarity about the things we are getting right, as well as the stuff we should be desperate to improve. Authoritative, forensic and humane a critical voice for our troubled times. -- Emily Maitlis
This is stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic and serious about the country we are. It presents a wonderful opportunity for an incoming government. -- Rory Stewart
Spiced with wit, this is a masterful, fact-packed indictment of modern Britain after its decade of decline. But there is also hope and optimism in its practical prescription for a great social and economic restoration. -- Polly Toynbee
Torsten Bell has produced a brilliant analysis of the politics of pessimism in which the UK is currently mired and shows us how we can begin to arrest, then reverse, our dispiriting torpor. He is also that rare thing an economist who can write for non-experts. The country must cherish him and ask for more. -- Peter Hennessy
A dose of Torstenomics is the only thing that can give us hope -- Amol Rajan
A forensic, sometimes merciless, critique of what lies behind Britains headlong economic decline and hopeful, feasible proposals for turning it around. One of the most impressive and readable books in a growing body of work that together is arguing for a radical change of direction. We cant go on like this. -- Will Hutton, author of * This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain *
Finally an exciting, positive agenda to restore growth, reduce inequality and rebuild the social contract in Britain. -- Minouche Shafik
Torsten Bell is an extraordinarily accomplished economist and thinker who not only speaks lucidly about what ails the British economy, but also offers upbeat, relentlessly sensible ideas for making things better. -- Stephanie Flanders * Head of Economics and Government, Bloomberg *
This is a sobering but optimistic book. It paints a brutally honest portrait of Britains decline, but wisely shows us how to take action and get our future back. -- Professor Dame Diane Coyle * University of Cambridge *
How and why did the British economy become both stagnant and unequal? What must be done to transform its current plight for the better? This book gives thoughtful and provocative answers to both questions. Anybody interested in securing a better future for the country should read it. -- Martin Wolf * Chief Economist, Financial Times *
Compelling, engaging and meticulously researched. Excellent stuff. -- Tatton Spiller * Simple Politics *
Bell[s] a creative thinker whose ideas are often ahead of his time and focus on those others overlook: low and middle-income earners, not the wealthier middle classes, and renters, not homeowners required reading for the new intake its real achievement is in creating what he calls some hardheaded believable hope of better days ahead There are original ideas here for everything from helping the low-paid build up emergency savings to making shiftwork less precarious, and perhaps most radically, for shifting the burden of tax from income to wealth. -- Gaby Hinsliff * Observer *
