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THE STATE WE’RE IN, Will Hutton’s explosive analysis of British society, was the biggest selling politico-economic work since the Second World War. Now, as the world realigns itself in the wake of the September 11th atrocities, Hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be ordered. To understand the global economy, Hutton argues, one must first understand the United States. Over the past thirty years there, the forces of conservatism have achieved such supremacy as to reduce liberalism to a term of abuse. He lays bare modern America for what it is: a country of inequality in risk, opportunity and income, where 1% of the population owns 38% of the wealth, and 19% live in terrible poverty. And whilst American ideas dominated the latter part of the twentieth century, Hutton argues that the underpinning of the twenty-first must come from Europe. It is time for Britain to stop vacillating between two cultures and make common cause with its continental partners – to reject the conservative orthodoxy in favour of the shared European beliefs of obligations, rights and fairness.

Review:

• • Written with typical passion and command of a battery of facts, Will Hutton’s The World We’re In is a fierce attack on the politics of Euroscepticism and US economic conservatism. Hutton has already established his credentials as one of the leading liberal economic thinkers on the British State with his bestselling The State We’re In. In The World We’re In he widens his focus to discuss the global economy and the fraught relations between the US and Europe in the aftermath of September 11. Hutton argues that “if the rest of the world is not careful, our future will be to accept globalization almost entirely on American conservative terms.” He believes that the great tradition of liberalism in the US is in retreat, that “America is the most unequal society in the industrialized West”, and that claims regarding its economic supremacy and efficiency have been hugely exaggerated. For Hutton, the future lies with the European Union’s more inclusive and liberal approach towards politics and economics.The book skilfully charts its way through the different historical, economic and philosophical approaches to land, law and profit that have defined the European and American traditions, concluding that Europe offers a better “scope within globalization for different cultures and approaches to capitalism to flourish.” For Hutton, this involves a philosophical belief in the existence of a civic society and a flourishing society, a “decentralized State, consensual labour relations” and a stakeholder ethos that America has always lacked. He admits that this “is a book for the idea of Europe”, that also envisages the United Kingdom at the heart of Europe, not Washington. Marshaling an impressive array of economic data alongside an impassioned belief in radical democracy, The World We’re In is an important addition to the urgent discussions regarding the world we want. —Jerry Brotton

• Written with typical passion and command of a battery of facts, Will Hutton’s The World We’re In is a fierce attack on the politics of Euroscepticism and US economic conservatism. Hutton has already established his credentials as one of the leading liberal economic thinkers on the British State with his bestselling The State We’re In. In The World We’re In he widens his focus to discuss the global economy and the fraught relations between the US and Europe in the aftermath of September 11. (Hutton argues that “if the rest of the world is not careful, our future will be to accept globalization almost entirely on American conservative terms.” He believes that the great tradition of liberalism in the US is in retreat, that “America is the most) The book skilfully charts its way through the different historical, economic and philosophical approaches to land, law and profit that have defined the European and American traditions, concluding that Europe offers a better “scope within globalization fo (Jerry Brotton) a timely and forward-looking book…Hutton’s powerful and flawlessly argued assertion is that to opt for dependence upon America is madness’ – Independent on Sunday

• THE STATE WE’RE IN affected government policy, THE WORLD WE’RE IN will affect us all as we decide on Britain’s future.

William Nicolas Hutton (born 21 May 1950) is an English journalist. As of 2022, he writes a regular column for The Observer, co-chairs the Purposeful Company, and is the president-designate of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the chair of the advisory board of the UK National Youth Corps. He was principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford from 2011 to 2020, and co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative from the Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society), having been chief executive of the Work Foundation from 2000 to 2008. He was formerly editor-in-chief of The Observer.