Will Hutton

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Will Hutton is a British writer, weekly columnist (and formerly editor-in-chief) for The Observer in London and currently Chief Executive of The Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society). The analysis in his books is characterised by a support for the European Union and its potential, and a disdain for what he calls American conservatism — defined as a certain attitude to markets, property and the social contract, among other factors. He won the 1992 What The Papers Say award for political journalist of the year.

Hutton joined The Work Foundation as chief executive in 2000 when it was named the Industrial Society.[1] As well as a columnist, author and Chief Executive, a governor of London School of Economics; a visiting professor at the University of Manchester Business School and Bristol University, and a visiting fellow at Mansfield College Oxford; a trustee of the Scott Trust that owns the Guardian Media Group ; rapporteur of the Kok group and member of the Design Council's Millennium Commission.[2]

Hutton studied at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, where he was introduced to A level economics by a talented teacher Garth Pinkney. He started his career as a stock broker and investment analyst, before moving on to work in TV and radio, spending ten years with the BBC, including working as economics correspondent for Newsnight from 1983 to 1988. He spent four years as editor-in-chief at The Observer and director of the Guardian National Newspapers before joining the Industrial Society, now known as The Work Foundation.

As an author, his best known and most influential works are The State We're In (an economic and political look at Britain in the 1990s from a social democratic point of view) and The World We're In (where he expanded his focus to the relationship between the United States and Europe, emphasising cultural and social differences between the two blocs).

Hutton's next work will be a book analysing China's developing relationship with the world, titled The Writing On The Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy the working title of the book was "the elephant in the pond" and is due for release in the UK in January through Free Press publishing.

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Trust: ..From Socrates to Spin (2004) Kieron O'Hara, Will Hutton (introduction) ISBN 1-84046-531-X
A Declaration of Interdependence: Why America Should Join the World (2003) ISBN 0-393-05725-9 [3]
The World We're In (2002) ISBN 0-316-85871-4
Global Capitalism (2000) Will Hutton (editor), Anthony Giddens (editor) ISBN 1-56584-648-6
On the Edge: Essays on a Runaway World (2000) Anthony Giddens (editor), Will Hutton (editor) ISBN 0-224-05937-8
The Stakeholding Society: Writings on Politics and Economics (1998) ISBN 0-7456-2078-7
The State to Come (1997) ISBN 0-09-977881-5
The State We're in: Why Britain Is in Crisis and How to Overcome It (1995) ISBN 0-224-03688-2
The Revolution That Never Was: An Assessment of Keynesian Economics (1986) ISBN 0-582-29603-X