ABSTRACT
This book is about economics, and about economic policy. It is part of an incessant debate which has now been going on for many years, and to an outsider it might possibly seem that the debate is too exclusively concerned with one aspect of life only. Money, after all, is not the only thing that matters, and even if it can be shown, as there will be no difficulty in showing, that the British record of economic policy is one unbroken chain of abysmal failure, Britain is still a fine country to live in. Are the media right to occupy themselves so obsessively with economic affairs, and are we all right to judge governments almost solely by their economic performance? Is this not a sign of a poor sense of values?
