The Harvard Business Review (HBR) is read by tens of thousands of business people around the world. Its articles cover a wide range of topics, are well written and interesting. I’m a subscriber but I don’t make the mistake of thinking that it’s about scientific accuracy, or that it’s completely unbiased. There’s an index called the impact factor that measures the importance and trust in the articles of a journal. The journal with the highest impact factor score is the Nature (38.1) and the lowest is the HBR (0.72).

Although there are a number of economic policies relating to wealth taxation, improvements in housing provision and investment in infrastructure which could have a significant effect on the quantum of the UK’s economic growth this paper will argue that the key problems lie at a deeper level and that the challenges of growth in the 21st Century in the UK and elsewhere require a more radical approach to both the quantity and quality of growth.