Friday is the New Saturday: How a Four-Day Working Week Will Save the Economy

A groundbreaking book on how and why the status quo of the 5-day week must change. ‘The four-day working week’s implementation is a civilisational step, desirable both for the economy and for the benefit of humanity. It will unshackle humankind, propelling our productivity and innovation, and giving us the freedom to flourish.’ ‘Friday Is the New Saturday’ makes a compelling, provocative and timely case for a paradigm shift in how the vast majority of us spend our time. Drawing on an eclectic range of economic theory, history and data, Pedro Gomes argues convincingly that a four-day working week will bring about a powerful economic renewal for the benefit of all society
for every worker, every firm and every industry. Engagingly written, the book’s narrative is structured around the ideas of a quartet of economic history’s greatest thinkers from across the ideological spectrum
John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Marx and Friedrich Hayek. Through these figures, Pedro also offers readers an introduction to the subject he loves, showing how economics can help us to make sense of and navigate our lives. AUTHOR: Pedro Gomes is Reader in Economics at Birkbeck, University of London. He studied for his BSC in Economics in his home town of Lisbon and received his PhD from LSE in 2010. A leading researcher on public sector employment his work has influenced policy makers globally. He lives in London.