{"product_id":"pound-and-the-fury","title":"Pound and the Fury","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat’s wrong with the UK economy? Everyone has an opinion. But no one has an answer. Why?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, our economy has failed to work for ordinary citizens: stagnant wages have been combined with underemployment and rising costs of basic goods like healthcare, education and housing. At the same time, a small minority of the population make obscene profits, while in the background we continue to hurtle headlong into an environmental emergency. While there is no shortage of anger and anti-elite sentiment expressed in what is often referred to as the ‘culture wars’, no significant challenge to the dominant economic model has broken into the mainstream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe pound and the fury \u003c\/i\u003eargues that behind this failure of imagination are a set of myths about how the economy works, myths that stifle debate and block change. This book analyses the origins of these myths and how they might be dispelled at a time when, away from the public gaze, economic theory is opening up new possibilities of economic action. Possibilities that, as we emerge from the chaos of COVID-19, could lead to the radical structural changes we desperately need.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251685249368,"sku":"9781526158802","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781526158802_e05246c3-81c0-4bb5-9453-9059bf46a884.jpg?v=1765268140","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pound-and-the-fury","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}