Are You Taking a Different Approach to Investment?

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Yeitik: What we now, i guess would to an extent, depending on your politics, accept as kind of s for government. And firstly is the importance of that critical infer structure and the investment that needs to be made in it. Then, you know, more that point about, youknow, regulation, particularly to make sure we're getting a degree of efficiency. Yeitik: How do we get beyond this kind of technoquatic language of why economically something may be worth doing? You can't make thes sort of small, technocratic tweek tweks mi say in the book, he says.

James Plunkett's new book, End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken, draws on his years working in both public policy and at the top tiers of government. A former advisor to UK prime minister Gordon Brown, his book looks at how to reboot some key ideas ranging from commerce to healthcare for a nation such as the UK in order to provide better quality of life for larger sections of society. James joins urbanist, transport and tech specialist Kat Hanna to talk about the book.

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