'An insightful playbook for getting out of the permacrisis we seem mired in’ - Walter Isaacson
‘A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world’ - Sheryl
Sandberg Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the
state of the world. Gordon Brown Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence certainly did. Three
of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time these friends found
their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a cascade of crises: sputtering growth surging
inflation poor policy responses an escalating climate emergency worsening inequality
increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. They shared their fears and
frustrations. And the more they talked the more they realised that while past mistakes had set
the world on this bumpy course a better path leading to a brighter future exists. Informed by
their different perspectives they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our
fractured world. This book is the product of that thinking. At the heart of today’s permacrisis
are broken approaches to growth economic management and governance. While these approaches
are broken they are not beyond repair. An explanation of where we’ve gone wrong and a
provocative inspiring plan to do nothing less than change the world Permacrisis: A Plan to
Fix a Fractured World written with Reid Lidow sets out how we can prevent crises and better
manage the future for the benefit of the many and not the few. The longer a problem goes
unresolved the worse it will get that’s what happens in a permacrisis – and that’s why we
must act now.
