The Pinch

by David Willetts

David Willetts has inserted sociology into Conservative thinking. He was the first to explain the importance of the family, and now he explains the importance of generational shifts. He gives a startlingly original explanation for our problems with saving and debt and how things like the baby boom have influenced social policy. It’s very smart, non-ideological thinking, which proceeds from an understanding of how society is rather than from how society should be.