Mismanaged Decline: What politicians won’t tell you about the economy

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.

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Professor Vicky Pryce

Professor Pryce is an international economist and commentator. She was formerly joint head of the UK Government Economic Service after a series of senior positions in banking, consulting and the energy sector. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. She is a Companion of the British Institute for Management, a Fellow of the Society for Professional Economists, and a fellow and previously also a council member of the Academy for Social Sciences. She also has the role of Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and Chair of Fellows at Radix Big Tent. She sits on the Advisory board of OMFIF and of Better Statistics CIC .She is a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London and was the first female Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants.

Her books include: How to be a Successful Economist, with Ross, Birdi and Harwood, OUP; Women Vs Capitalism , Hurst Publishing; Why Women Need Quotas, with Stefan Stern, Biteback; It's the Economy, Stupid- Economics for Voters, with Ross and Urwin, Biteback; Redesigning Manufacturing , with Beverland and Nielsen, Macmillan; Prisonomics, Biteback; and Greekonomics: The Euro crisis and Why Politicians Don't Get It, Biteback.

Professor Andy Ross
Andy Ross is both an academic and practitioner economist. He is a former deputy director in the Government Economic Service (GES) and was the head of professional development for the GES, and later for the Society of Professional Economists. Andy is a founding fellow of the Royal Economic Society, fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and of the Academy of Social Science.

A visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Andy was also: a visiting professor at Loughborough University and earlier at the University of Reading; visiting research fellow Leeds University; trustee and director of the Academy of Social Sciences; economist for High Oak Enterprises; and patron of the Economics Network. Andy has served as the chief adviser for the Government Economic Service Economic Assessment Centre recruitment (EAC) and regularly trained the GES recruitment assessors for the GES in England, Scotland and Wales. He was an employer representative on the QAA subject benchmarks for economics and one of two employer representatives for the Teaching Excellence Framework pilot for Social Science and the Built Environment. Author of various articles, he has also been the keynote speaker at major conferences for economists. Andy was joint author with Vicky Pryce and Peter Urwin of It’s the Economy Stupid (2015) published by Biteback and of How to be a Successful Economist with Vicky Pryce, Alvin Birdi and Ian Harwood, published by Oxford University Press.

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