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Follow the Money 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times

Johnson, Paul
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349144665
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Abacus
Vekt
10260 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Johnson, Paul

Om bidragsyterne

Paul Johnson has been Director of the IFS since January 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. Paul has worked and published extensively on the economics of public policy, with a particular focus on income distribution, public finances, pensions, tax, social security, education and climate change. He was awarded a CBE for services to the social sciences and economics in 2018. As well as a previous period of work at the IFS his career has included spells at HM Treasury, the Department for Education and the FSA. Between 2004 and 2007 he was deputy head of the Government Economic Service. Paul Johnson is currently also a member of the committee on climate change and the Banking Standards Board.

Follow the Money 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times

Johnson, Paul
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Johnson, Paul
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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<b>This book is the antidote to naivety that our political class needs.</b> 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"... <b>The story he tells may leave you reeling</b>... 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

<b>So gripping and horrifying that it should probably come with a trigger warning</b>: 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 <b>Johnson's clear, witty prose</b>. 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... <b>This is a brilliant book. Buy it, read it and weep</b>

The Times

Erudite and informative

New Statesman

Se alle

<b>A treasure trove of killer facts</b>

Guardian

<b><i>Follow the Money</i> is essential reading</b>

Tortoise Media

<b>Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works.</b> 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

<b>This is an important book by the economist who has set the terms of so much political debate over the past decade</b>. If you want to understand why crazy politics routinely trumps economic rationality in government choices, read this.

Robert Peston

Paul Johnson - the oracle of fiscal - has provided the perfect guide through this dense thicket of fiscal facts and fictions, both explaining the hard choices we now face and why, as citizens, it matters that we understand and act wisely when making them

Andy Haldane

Fire and passion, combined with the facts. Every politician should get a copy, as the tales of short-sighted, election-fixated, cowardly decision-making are so depressing. And your way forward looks so blindingly sensible.

Polly Toynbee

Readable and entertaining... <b>Johnson pulls no punches</b> in his new book on the public finances which charts Government public policy failures

Municipal Journal

Readers interested in this subject could hardly hope for a better-qualified author... It should be compulsory reading for every MP and prospective government minister... <b>packed full of interesting data and analysis</b>... The real value of this book lies in the fact that Johnson <i>does</i> go far beyond the usual IFS mission, setting out his own agenda for the future

Literary Review

<b>[A] powerful dissection</b> of the stupidities of how we organise taxing and spending

- Will Hutton, Observer

Paul Johnson's <b>sharp and thorough</b><i> Follow the Money</i> is based on an idea so clear that it's surprising nobody has thought of it before... <b>an energetic and angry book, charged with a strong sense of frustration</b>

- John Lanchester, London Review of Books

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 KuenssbergPaul 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
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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 . . .
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
Les mer
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 TimesSo 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 TimesA treasure trove of killer facts - GuardianRead 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 KuenssbergThis 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[A] powerful dissection of the stupidities of how we organise taxing and spending - Observer
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<b>This book is the antidote to naivety that our political class needs.</b> 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"... <b>The story he tells may leave you reeling</b>... 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

<b>So gripping and horrifying that it should probably come with a trigger warning</b>: 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 <b>Johnson's clear, witty prose</b>. 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... <b>This is a brilliant book. Buy it, read it and weep</b>

The Times

Erudite and informative

New Statesman

Se alle

<b>A treasure trove of killer facts</b>

Guardian

<b><i>Follow the Money</i> is essential reading</b>

Tortoise Media

<b>Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works.</b> 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

<b>This is an important book by the economist who has set the terms of so much political debate over the past decade</b>. If you want to understand why crazy politics routinely trumps economic rationality in government choices, read this.

Robert Peston

Paul Johnson - the oracle of fiscal - has provided the perfect guide through this dense thicket of fiscal facts and fictions, both explaining the hard choices we now face and why, as citizens, it matters that we understand and act wisely when making them

Andy Haldane

Fire and passion, combined with the facts. Every politician should get a copy, as the tales of short-sighted, election-fixated, cowardly decision-making are so depressing. And your way forward looks so blindingly sensible.

Polly Toynbee

Readable and entertaining... <b>Johnson pulls no punches</b> in his new book on the public finances which charts Government public policy failures

Municipal Journal

Readers interested in this subject could hardly hope for a better-qualified author... It should be compulsory reading for every MP and prospective government minister... <b>packed full of interesting data and analysis</b>... The real value of this book lies in the fact that Johnson <i>does</i> go far beyond the usual IFS mission, setting out his own agenda for the future

Literary Review

<b>[A] powerful dissection</b> of the stupidities of how we organise taxing and spending

- Will Hutton, Observer

Paul Johnson's <b>sharp and thorough</b><i> Follow the Money</i> is based on an idea so clear that it's surprising nobody has thought of it before... <b>an energetic and angry book, charged with a strong sense of frustration</b>

- John Lanchester, London Review of Books

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 KuenssbergPaul 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
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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 . . .
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
Les mer
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 TimesSo 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 TimesA treasure trove of killer facts - GuardianRead 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 KuenssbergThis 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[A] powerful dissection of the stupidities of how we organise taxing and spending - Observer
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349144665
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Abacus
Vekt
10260 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Johnson, Paul

Om bidragsyterne

Paul Johnson has been Director of the IFS since January 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. Paul has worked and published extensively on the economics of public policy, with a particular focus on income distribution, public finances, pensions, tax, social security, education and climate change. He was awarded a CBE for services to the social sciences and economics in 2018. As well as a previous period of work at the IFS his career has included spells at HM Treasury, the Department for Education and the FSA. Between 2004 and 2007 he was deputy head of the Government Economic Service. Paul Johnson is currently also a member of the committee on climate change and the Banking Standards Board.

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