Windows of Opportunity, 9781788163842
Hardcover
Economic growth: not steady, but jumps; government can pick technologies.

Windows of Opportunity

how nations create wealth

$58.16

  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    2 March 2020

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Summary

Windows of Opportunity: A New Theory of Economic Growth

Is neoclassical economics dead? Why have the biggest industrial economies stagnated since the financial crisis? Is the competitive threat from China a tired metaphor or a genuine danger to our standard of living?

Lord David Sainsbury draws on his experience in business and government to assemble the evidence and comes to some startling conclusions. In Windows of Opportunity, he argues that economic growth comes…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781788163842
ISBN-10:1788163842
Author:Lord David Sainsbury, David Sainsbury
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:Profile Books Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:2 March 2020
Weight:580g
Dimensions:236mm x 162mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

One way or another, [this government] is going to have big decisions to make about industrial policy in this new and very different world. This book should go on its reading list. – Richard Lambert * Financial Times *

About The Author

Lord David Sainsbury

David Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Turville) was Finance Director of J. Sainsbury plc 1973-90 and Chairman 1992-8. He was Minister of Science and Innovation in Tony Blair’s Labour Government from July 1998 until November 2006. He founded the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and founded and chairs the Institute for Government. In 2007 he produced a review of the Government’s science and innovation policies, The Race to the Top, and in 2013 published Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice. He has been Chancellor of the University of Cambridge since October 2011.

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