More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First

Something has gone badly wrong with the institutions that govern our lives. People feel angry, ignored, and let down, not by a single party or a single policy, but by a whole system that has grown too big, too bureaucratic, and too remote from the actual scale of human experience. Steve Hilton, with Scott and Jason Bade, argues that the political and policy debate has been asking the wrong questions. The problem is not simply that leaders have made bad choices. It is that the systems themselves, our governments, corporations, schools, and healthcare structures, have been designed in ways that are fundamentally incompatible with how human beings actually live and flourish. More Human is a radical manifesto for redesigning those systems from the ground up: shrinking them to a human scale, stripping away the bureaucratic layers that insulate them from accountability, and rebuilding them around the people they are supposed to serve. Drawing on the latest advances in neuroscience, education, and technology, Hilton offers concrete proposals across every major area of public life, from poverty and inequality to education, healthcare, and democratic participation. Not a left-wing or right-wing book in any conventional sense, More Human is a challenge to both sides of the political divide to stop defending systems designed for a world that no longer exists.