Description
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises the economic analysis on which the Third Way approach to policy was founded and suggests an alternative to its legalistic and managerial basis for the regulation of social relations.
Trade Review"What is particularly uplifting about this book is that it could be read positively from within any of our three major political parties, which means that it has the potential to generate a common mind on how future social policy should be shaped." Citizen's Income Newsletter
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part one: A moral order?: Value, virtue and justice; Snap judgments and rational choices; Nature, science and cosmology; Part two: Regulation and relationsship: What is economics good for?; Moral regulation; In search of a moral compass; Part three: The policy response: Sharing wealth, income and work; Sustaining the quality of life; Conclusions.
