<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><header class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-width: 0px 0px 6px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 300; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Reviews</span></h2></header><section class="" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“If you thought that GDP did not necessarily translate into increased welfare, David Pilling shows you convincingly why you were right. One of the <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Financial Times</span>' most brilliant columnists, Pilling has produced <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a book that will become a classic</span>” – Jagdish Bhagwati, author of 'Why Growth Matters' and 'In Defense of Globalization’,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“David Pilling is <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a witty, well-informed and well-travelled guide to our obsession with growth</span>, even when it is poorly defined or fails to measure what we care about. He appreciates what growth has done for so many, but his skepticism about GDP--and its alternatives—is <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">an invaluable primer as we try to do better</span>. If he sometimes makes fun of measurement, he also makes measurement fun. A real achievement” – Angus Deaton, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics,</p><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“In <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The Growth Delusion </span>Pilling makes <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">an important yet complicated subject accessible to experts and non-experts alike</span>. The book offers a most insightful and at times witty guide to the essential question: what precisely is economic growth for and how can it be harnessed to improve the lives of people in poor countries as well as rich ones?” – Kofi Annan, seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“This is <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">a fascinating and extremely readable book</span> which engagingly challenges many of our assumptions about what makes for a successful economy and a happy life” – Chris Patten, the last Governor of Hong Kong and author of 'East and 'West’,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class="">“This is an <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">excellent and timely book</span> which should be mandatory reading for policymakers, economists, investors and, yes, journalists. It exposes the folly of our modern obsession with a narrow concept of economics and our reliance on gross domestic product data as a sign of well being - and does this in a <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">lively, well written</span>, and easy-to-understand way” – Gillian Tett, author of 'Fool's Gold' and 'The Silo Effect’,</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“<span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Engaging and enlightening</span>, <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The Growth Delusion </span>explains not only why the emperor has no clothes, but why he wasn't really the emperor in the first place” – David Mitchell, author of 'Cloud Atlas’,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“Briskly and engagingly, David Pilling alerts us to our impoverished sense of reality in an age that has sacrificed quality to quantity. <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The Growth Delusion should be read by everyone who wants to make sense of the political earthquakes of our time</span>” – Pankaj Mishra, author of 'Age of Anger’,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“A rare beast: a book on economics that is well written, accessible and – whisper it – entertaining! … Witty, widely travelled and well-informed, David Pilling is an excellent guide to the pitfalls and shortcomings of GDP and a trenchant exponent of the need to move beyond the 'cult of growth'” – <span class="">New Internationalist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“What economics needs now, what we all need, are people who can bring it back to life. In <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The Growth Delusion </span>Pilling does exactly that, charting the idea of economic growth from its birth to the present <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">through countless vivid stories</span>” – Joe Earle, author of 'The Econocracy’,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“A <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">most thoughtful and profound philosophical reflection</span> on how we live our lives, organise our societies and shape the future of humanity. It<span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> should be compulsory reading</span> for everyone who is interested in making the world a better place” – Ha-Joon Chang, author of '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism'</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“Pilling combines a historian's breadth of vision, an anthropologist's clearheadedness, an investigator's knack of knowing what questions to ask, an economist's grasp of the circuitry of money and a top-notch journalist's curiosity about the human effects of political causes. The resultis a probing, nourishing and independent-minded book<br class="">” – Praise for 'Bending Adversity', David Mitchell,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“Fascinating and well-researched ... Pilling's experience as a journalist lends <span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Bending Adversity </span>a welcome veracity it might otherwise have lacked ... poignant, insightful, understated, heart breaking but also often uplifting” – Praise for 'Bending Adversity', <span class="">Independent</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline;">“<span class="" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Bending Adversity </span>does an excellent job of reappraising [Japan's] lost years of economic deflation and social and political stagnation ... There has to be a way, says Pilling, that we can live without growth. This fascinating and timely book shows us where to look for it” – Praise for 'Bending Adversity', <span class="">Spectator</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">============================================================================<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br class="">“Ten thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on the planet. There was plenty of room to expand and move, and resources seemed endless.” <br class=""><br class="">Niles Eldredge. Dominion. 1995. University of California Press.</p></section><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">============================================================================<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">“Ten thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on the planet. There was plenty of room to expand and move, and resources seemed endless.” <br class=""><br class="">Niles Eldredge. Dominion. 1995. University of California Press.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div>
<br class=""></body></html>