Forget budgets – economic redemption can only comes from ourselves now

In the last of our Budget 2013 coverage, Adam Lent argues that much of the contemporary political discourse about economic policy has failed to grasp the limited agency of the state in the contemporary world. Instead of asking what, if any, macroeconomic levers the government could or should be using to generate growth, we should look to a new spirit of civil activism and social enterpeneurship to rebuild the nation’s fortunes.