Britons ‘have never had it so good’, declared Harold Macmillan in 1957. Nearly 60 years later the economy is three times as productive. We should be three times richer, so why are people struggling harder and harder to make ends meet?

According to Martin Whitlock - a business expert with a surprising outlook – the problem is that our economy is structured for a very different time, a time before technology made many difficult tasks effortless. We could be working much less than we are, or making far more productive use of our working time. Our economic wrong track is, in turn, the key to fixing other problems. Once we make important changes in how we view the economy our broken politics and everything that results from it (education, social policy, immigration policy etc) will improve.

This thought-provoking book takes a fresh, accessible look at our economy and politics, where it has all gone wrong and how to fix it.