One of Britain's best-known economists, Roger Bootle runs Capital Economics, Europe's largest macroeconomics consultancy, which he founded. Roger appears frequently on television and radio and is also a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. In the Comment Awards 2012 he was named Economics Commentator of the year. He is the author of widely acclaimed books including - The Trouble with Markets, Money for Nothing and The Death of Inflation. Roger is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee. He was one of the previous Conservative government's 'Wise Men'. In July 2012, Roger and a team from Capital Economics won the prestigious Wolfson Economics Prize.
I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone. - The Sunday Times Maps out a fresh start for UK-EU relations. - Financial Times Bootle is right on every count. - The Guardian Engaging and absorbing, here is an eye-opening book that will inspire you to think through the issues clearly - with- out starting a saloon-bar brawl. - The Daily Telegraph Brilliant, albeit radical solutions. One of the most thoughtful accounts that I have yet read about the European question. - Independent on Sunday This is a credible plan for life outside Europe and deserves to be widely read. - The Week Business Books of the Year Here it is - a book for every faint-heart who thinks this country could never prosper outside the European Union Roger Bootle perceptively analyses what is wrong with the European Union as presently constituted, both politically and economically; and how we can most sensibly conduct ourselves outside the EU.