The Future Starts with Us by Gordon Brown
It is a familiar set of problems for readers of Brown’s earlier books, not least his last work, Perma-Crisis (2023), written together with Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence, which sought to apply the lessons of the reaction to the global financial crisis to the overlapping crises the world now faces. Brown notes that part of the discontent is a result of the “neoliberalist” policies pursued over the last few decades. There is nothing wrong with changing one’s mind but where this book fails, as with Brown’s own memoir, My Life, Our Times, is that we are never given a sense of what he would do differently from his time as chancellor and prime minister, or indeed when the change in perspective occurred. Financial Times 9 September 2026 https://www.ft.com/content/2f8e54d2-ec95-48f1-a2a8-d34c774f48f8?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Permacrisis by Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian and Michael Spence https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/01/permacrisis-by-gordon-brown-mohamed-el.html Gordon Brown r...