John Nicholas Gray is a English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer.
i bought it when a friend had a stack of coffeetable magazines, and i flipped through The Economist, and saw a book review of it, and it was unusual.. and I thought i might buy it
It's not as polished as John Kenneth Galbraith or Paul Samuelson, but was one of the first books i remember browsing that criticized neo-liberal policies...