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The UK economy is heading for a disastrous period of austerity and stagnation – GDP growth is unsustainable, debt is increasing, inequality is widening and unemployment is high. But all of these trends can be reversed by moving a few crucial levers in economic policy. This book offers a bold manifesto for how we can get the economy back on track. In this vital and timely call to action, leading economist and entrepreneur John Mills and political thinker Bryan Gould provide a searing critique of the decisions behind current UK economic policy and provide a clear step-by-step account of how to revive it, with little or no increase in inflation. Things cannot go on as they are – this book delivers a fresh roadmap to improve our quality of life and secure Britain’s economic stability for future generations.

Bryan Gould draws on his experience as a leading British politician and as a lawyer, academic, diplomat and television journalist to explain why the political and economic doctrines that have dominated the western world for three decades have meant that western countries have found that their democratic governments no longer serve them well.

In the absence of divine direction, how do we decide for ourselves the behaviours that would best serve our own interests, and those of other creatures, and of the planet as a whole? What might we turn to and draw upon to help us in making our own rules and in establishing our own moral principles?

Bryan Gould maps out the course he believes will lead the Labour Party to success in the 1990s. He takes as his starting point Anthony Crosland's "The Future of Socialism" 1956 and analyzes the reasons for the failure to foresee the right-wing triumphs of the 1980s.

Without really knowing why, many New Zealanders are baffled and disturbed by the current economic turmoil of our cripplingly high interest rates and a massively over-valued New Zealand dollar that is destroying the returns of our mainstay exporters. Author Bryan Gould shows how an extreme policy straitjacket has been responsible for decades of damage to our productive economy. But importantly, this book also looks beyond the recent, depressing past to a more optimistic vision for the future, and lays out a way forward that utilises a more balanced and humane view of what economic management is about. Ultmately, it is a plea for people to become better informed and to enter into the debate about how we can revive the New Zealand economy.

Goodbye to All That is an account of Bryan Gould's lifelong passion for Britain combined with a scathing condemnation of the failures of Socialism to fulfil the promise of the early 1960s. As a young MP and, later, as a prominent member of the Shadow Cabinet, Gould has always fought for change. A committed anti-federalist and a consistent critic of Labour's embrace of monetarism under Callaghan and Healey, he believes that Labour wasted its opportunities to propose a radical economic and social alternative to the politics of the establishment.

The Democracy Sham provides a clear and succinct critique of New Zealand economic policy since the mid 1980s, and offers a highly informed perspective on what can be done to loosen the grip that big business and the global economy have on our economic policy, our political system and indeed our daily lives.