Lost Causes: The Retreat from Classical Liberalism

Economic and Political Thought

Lost Causes: The Retreat from Classical Liberalism

by Deepak Lal

Institute of Economic Affairs

March 28, 2012

Society is cracking. Lurching from economic disaster to social decay, our modern-day life is plagued by sickness. Deepak Lal, world-renowned economist, tackles the hidden roots of our problems in his visionary book Lost Causes. Providing a completely new framework for socio-economic understanding, Lal challenges the received wisdom with a sure voice and shows how those in power have forgotten to take care of some of the fundamentals of everyday life. From a faltering National Health Service to the war on drugs, Lal reveals to the world the lost causes in its current malaise.

URL: www.iea.org.uk/publications/co-published-books/lost-causes-the-retreat-from-classical-liberalism