Mismanaged Decline distils the lessons to be learned from the forces that have shaped the UK economy from the industrial revolution to today.

The book is a comprehensive reality check on what UK governments can and can’t achieve through economic policy, in a book that will embarrass politicians from all parties, including today's Labour government. Drawing on extensive front-line policy experience, the authors capture what can be learned and used to improve the performance of the UK economy, from studying inexorable global forces and the many home-grown policy errors. Unlike so many politicians, the authors seek to explain why there are no magic solutions, why there will be no sudden economic ‘reset’, and why that only makes what we must do now all the more urgent.

Advocating pragmatic solutions over political dogma, Mismanaged Decline proves that good economics heeds no ideology. At a time of rising geopolitical uncertainty, this balanced, non-partisan account offers a blueprint for a stronger and more resilient economy.