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Follow the Money: 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times
Paul Johnson
Economics
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- Paperback Apr 25, 2024 | 9780349144665 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 25, 2024 | 9780349144665 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
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- Audiobook Feb 23, 2023 | 9781405556149 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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How do we reach a 'new economic normal' after Covid-19? The head of the IFS invites us to follow the money and find out . . .
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times
'A treasure trove of killer facts' Guardian
'Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works' Laura Kuenssberg
Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute for Fiscal Studies aim to hold Government to account - without which politicians will get away with their half-truths, elisions and dubious claims. This is a forensic examination - by the man best placed to do so - of the way the state raises and spends 1 trillion of our money every year. To follow the money. To provide an explanation, of where that money comes from and where it goes to, how that has changed and how it needs to change.
'This book is the antidote to naivety that our political class needs. Anyone, in fact, who has strong views about how society should be run would benefit from reading it, because every political ambition costs money and as Johnson writes, "someone has to pay for all this"... The story he tells may leave you reeling... Johnson's buoyant yet acerbic style will keep you engaged. The sobering realities he lays out are peppered with entertaining asides'
Book of the Week, Sunday Times
Praise for Follow the Money: 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times
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A treasure trove of killer facts - Guardian
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This book is the antidote to naivety that our political class needs. Anyone, in fact, who has strong views about how society should be run would benefit from reading it, because every political ambition costs money and as Johnson writes, "someone has to pay for all this"... The story he tells may leave you reeling... Johnson's buoyant yet acerbic style will keep you engaged. The sobering realities he lays out are peppered with entertaining asides - Book of the Week, Sunday Times
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[A] powerful dissection of the stupidities of how we organise taxing and spending - Observer
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Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works. Johnson uses his talent for crunching the complex into the comprehensible to produce a cheerfully skeptical guide to the British state, revealing it's wisdom and idiocy, and where our money really goes. - Laura Kuenssberg
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This is an important book by the economist who has set the terms of so much political debate over the past decade. If you want to understand why crazy politics routinely trumps economic rationality in government choices, read this. - Robert Peston
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So gripping and horrifying that it should probably come with a trigger warning: readers may find the content concerning the state of their country's governance upsetting... Given its subject matter, the book is a surprisingly easy read. That's thanks to Johnson's clear, witty prose. Few other writers could produce such a palatable explanation of the system of local government finance or make their readers guffaw over the details of VAT collection... This is a brilliant book. Buy it, read it and weep - The Times
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson was born in 1928. He edited the New Statesman in the 1960s and has written over forty books. His Modern Times, a history of the world from the 1920s to the 1990s, has been translated into more than fifteen languages. As well as a weekly column in the Spectator, he contributes to newspapers all over the world.
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