There are so many books I want to have read: Middlemarch, Ulysses, Eat, Pray, Love – but cannot bring myself to read. Voters have a similar relationship with economic development.
People want to be richer, sure, but do they want growth? The author and blogger Chris Dillow doesn’t think so. In a post earlier this week, he reflected that there was “little evidence the voters want economic growth: they voted against it in 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.” Now, Dillow self-identifies as “one of Rutland’s most prominent Marxist economists”, so he is not necessarily a natural Tory voter. But his case is worthy of examination.
