John Micklethwait is the Editor-in-Chief of the Economist; Adrian Wooldridge was its Washington bureau chief until 2009, and now serves as Management Editor and 'Schumpeter' columnist. They have written four previous books together: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea; A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization; The Witchdoctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus; The Right Nation: Why America is Different; and God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World.
The cost of government is no longer an ivory-tower whinge . . . [a] splendid diatribe -- Simon Jenkins * Mail on Sunday * Brilliantly incisive ... sparkling -- Daniel Johnson * Standpoint *