How Did Britain Come to This? : A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century...
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LSE Press
2023
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