End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and how we can fix it

Author(s): James Plunkett

Business

Is the solution to the global mental health crisis to be found in getting rid of Mondays?

Is it time to stop poor people being poor by...giving them money? Post Covid, UBI is no longer a fringe left-wing idea. Why does it work?


Can we turn the tide on the rise of global populism by giving 16-year olds the vote?


The intersecting shockwaves from Covid 19, and the re-examination of old social structures that the Black Lives Matter protests have exposed, have revealed deep fault lines and irreparable damage to our old ways of living. In End State, James Plunkett argues that this offers tremendous opportunities to rethink, renew and reform some of the fundamentals of society. In much the same way as the end of World War Two saw the creation of the NHS and welfare state, he argues that as we live through these once in a generation dislocations, we need to set our compass for the new future we want to build.

James Plunkett has spent his career thinking laterally about the complicated relationships between individuals and the state. First as a special advisor to Gordon Brown, then as a member of the Resolution think tank and in current day job as Executive Director at Citizen's Advice, he has always focused on the ways that people actually live, rather than looking down from the ivory tower of academia.

Now, in his first book, he'll set out his argument for the ten ways that our relationship with the state isn't fit for purpose and how it needs to change. Covering a dizzyingly ambitious and global range of references, from London's 18th Century sewage systems to the future of digital education, this is a thrillingly iconoclastic manifesto for navigating the future, which will be required reading.

38.00 NZD

Stock: 0


Add to Wishlist


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781398702189
  • : Orion
  • : Trapeze
  • : 0.3
  • : October 2021
  • : {"length"=>["22.2"], "width"=>["13.8"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : James Plunkett
  • : Hardback
  • : 302.5