Myths Politicians and Money : The Truth Behind the Free Market

Many of us are increasingly puzzled and angered by the problems that government seems unable to resolve. Recent revelations by whistle-blowers only add to the sense that powerful forces control our lives and that we have no say in what they decide. There is, in general, a distinct loss in confidence in the democratic process.

In Myths, Politicians & Money, former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Bryan Gould casts new light on these issues. Using examples of his involvement with many of the pressing political and economic issues that have troubled governments in the West over the last four decades, Gould shows that these problems have a common cause: the surrender of our democracy to those who control and dominate the global economy.

Myths, Politicians & Money exposes why politicians around the world distort economic policy against the interest of ordinary people, how neo-liberalism has been allowed to rise to prominence and why the break-down of a European super-state will create economic stability for millions.

Controversial and shocking, this is the insider story of the rise of the free market ideology, its entrenchment within politics and the terrible impact that it has had on society.

Author Biography: Bryan Gould was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who became a British diplomat, an Oxford law don, a television journalist, and a leading British politician. He challenged for the leadership of the British Labour Party in 1992 and returned to New Zealand in 1994 to lead a New Zealand university.

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