Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity

Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies?

It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay.

In fascinating and iconoclastic detail - on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives - Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning.

'Andrew Simm's talent for casting gigantic issues in pleasingly human terms is clear . . . When you have set the book down and pondered its essential message, you are left with an entire mindset . . . Essential' John Harris, Guardian