His optimism is unquenchable, his excitement exhilarating and his creativity awesome
Observer
If Will Hutton were a political party I would vote for him
- David Aaronovitch, Independent
Passionately sane, rich in ideas, <i>The State We're In</i> breathes human sense back into economics and eloquently embodies the spirit of a new optimism
Ian McEwan
Hutton acknowledges two great influences: J.M. Keynes and J.K. Galbraith... Hutton's bestseller will do for their theories what Stephen Hawking did for cosmology in <i>A Brief History of Time</i>
- Martin Vander Weyer, Daily Telegraph
Now, in Will Hutton's book, we have at last what we need - an impassioned, and passionately cogent, critique of New Right policy
- John Gray, Guardian