Allen Lane

This highly personal book, based on years of travel and first-hand research in North America.

Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything. Behavioural economics knows better.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe.