My book reviews of WHAT WE OWE EACH OTHER by Minouche Shafik, GO BIG by Ed Milliband and RESCUE by Ian Goldin, were published by the Times Literary Supplement on 10 September, 2021. In the preface to What We Owe Each Other, Minouche Shafik quotes the opening line of W. B. Yeats’s famous poem, “The Second Coming” (1919), written as the poet’s pregnant wife lay gravely ill from the flu pandemic. It is a strange choice, given the positive and often upbeat tone of Shafik’s book. Yeats’s poem is, after all, a cry of despair at the follies of humanity, warning of the risk of civilizational collapse; Shafik, by contrast, is optimistic, packed with useful, well-evidenced, orthodox policy prescriptions for a new social contract.
Build back better? Rebalancing the global economy
Build back better? Rebalancing the global…
My book reviews of WHAT WE OWE EACH OTHER by Minouche Shafik, GO BIG by Ed Milliband and RESCUE by Ian Goldin, were published by the Times Literary Supplement on 10 September, 2021. In the preface to What We Owe Each Other, Minouche Shafik quotes the opening line of W. B. Yeats’s famous poem, “The Second Coming” (1919), written as the poet’s pregnant wife lay gravely ill from the flu pandemic. It is a strange choice, given the positive and often upbeat tone of Shafik’s book. Yeats’s poem is, after all, a cry of despair at the follies of humanity, warning of the risk of civilizational collapse; Shafik, by contrast, is optimistic, packed with useful, well-evidenced, orthodox policy prescriptions for a new social contract.