'"The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world"

Will Hutton is a leading political economist, author and journalist. His long and storied career has taken him from the City as an investment banker, the Economics editorship of the Guardian and BBC2 Newsnight , the editorship of the Observer, the chief executive of the Work Foundation and Principal of Hertford College Oxford.

He has chaired and directed, founded four think tanks – the Employment Policy Institute, the Work Foundation, the Big Innovation Centre and the Purposeful Company. His latest book This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain, examines how right-wing ideology has dominated Britain for the last 50 years and how to bring in a new one.

'His optimism is unquenchable, his excitement exhilarating and his creativity awesome' ― Observer