Exploring the challenges faced by Generation Z, this book delves into their experiences shaped by a global financial crisis, a pandemic, climate change, and rising autocracy. It emphasizes the urgency of survival over mere equity, highlighting the unique struggles and resilience of this generation in a rapidly changing world.
Student fees have saddled graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt from unpaid loans is rocketing. This timely and challenging analysis gives robust new policy proposals to encourage excellence and ultimately benefit society.
The book critiques the calls for replacing traditional economic theory with heterodox models following the financial crisis and Great Recession. It argues that the true issue lies in a flawed alliance between overly simplistic pro-market economics and basic Keynesian monetary policy, rather than a failure of economic theory itself. Through this lens, it advocates for a more nuanced understanding of economic principles to address the complexities of modern financial systems.