The Trouble with Europe
Why the EU isn't Working, How it Can be Reformed, How Brexit Could Change Europe
3rd Edition
Published on 18. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-85788-655-9 (ISBN)
Description
'This is a credible plan for life outside Europe and deserves to be widely read' The Week - Business Books of the Year FULLY REVISED EDITION FOR THE 2016 UK EU REFERENDUMThe EU hasn't delivered the prosperity and growth it promised; the euro has turned out to be a disaster; and the EU's share of world GDP is set to fall sharply.Moreover, no one is clear what the EU is for, or how 'ever closer union' can be matched with expanding borders and huge disparities of income and culture. The EU is the most important thing that stands between Europe and success.Outside the EU, the UK could thrive, shorn of the EU's regulatory burden and free to develop close trading links with everyone - a truly global Britain. Moreover, BREXIT could provide the spur for the EU either to reform or break up. The UK can lead the way to a better Europe.This updated and expanded Third edition of Roger Bootle's critically acclaimed book includes further material on European reform, mass migration and a major new chapter on the UK referendum and its consequences.
Reviews / Votes
I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone. -- Dominic Lawson * The Sunday Times * Maps out a fresh start for UK-EU relations. * Financial Times * This is a credible plan for life outside Europe and deserves to be widely read. * The Week - Business Books of the Year * Engaging and absorbing, here is an eye-opening book that will inspire you to think through the issues clearly - with- out starting a saloon-bar brawl. * The Daily Telegraph * Bootle is right on every count. -- Larry Elliott * The Guardian * Roger Bootle perceptively analyses what is wrong with the European Union as presently constituted, both politically and economically; and how we can most sensibly conduct ourselves outside the EU. -- Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Here it is - a book for every faint-heart who thinks this country could never prosper outside the European Union -- Boris Johnson Brilliant, albeit radical solutions. One of the most thoughtful accounts that I have yet read about the European question. * Independent on Sunday * Roger Bootle's well-informed and rigorously-argued book brutally exposes the problems besetting Europe. -- David Marsh, co-chairman of OMFIF, and author of Europe's Deadlock As I have come to expect from Roger Bootle, he gets to the heart of the matter with crystal-clear analysis and punchy comment. It's the best book yet on the European Union's dysfunctionality. -- Jeff Randall, Sky News business presenterMore details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
346 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85788-655-9 (9781857886559)
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Person
One of Britain's best-known economists, Roger Bootle runs Capital Economics, Europe's largest macroeconomics consultancy, which he founded. Roger appears frequently on television and radio and is also a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. In the Comment Awards 2012 he was named Economics Commentator of the year. He is the author of widely acclaimed books including - The Trouble with Markets, Money for Nothing and The Death of Inflation. Roger is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee. He was one of the previous Conservative government's 'Wise Men'. In July 2012, Roger and a team from Capital Economics won the prestigious Wolfson Economics Prize.