Windows of Opportunity
How Nations Create Wealth
$59.99
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2020
Summary
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 not as a steady process, but as a series of jumps, based on inves…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788163842 |
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| 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: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 30mm |
What They're Saying
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) served as Finance Director of J. Sainsbury plc from 1973 to 1990 and as its Chairman from 1992 to 1998.
- He held the position of Minister of Science and Innovation in Tony Blair’s Labour Government from July 1998 to November 2006.
- He founded the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
- He founded and chairs the Institute for Government.
- In 2007, he authored the review of the Government’s science and innovation policies, The Race to the Top.
- In 2013, he published Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice.
- He has been the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge since October 2011.
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