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Relegation for Albion 大不列颠的陨落 Going South: Why Britain Will Have A Third WorldEconomy By 2014. By Larry Elliott and DanAtkinson. 《滑向全球之南：为什么2014年的英国会有一个第三世界经济》;作者Larry Elliott，DanAtkinson。Palgrave Macmillan; The journalistic team of Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson proved to be more perceptive thanmost of their peers in skewering Britain s debt-fuelled boom. Their two previous books, Fantasy Island and The Gods That Failed , analysed why it happened andwho was to blame. So they will have a ready audience for their latest tale of woe, whichforecasts the imminent loss of Britain s developed-economy status. 事实证明，Larry Elliott和Dan Atkinson的记者团队在描绘被债务吹高的英国繁荣方面比他们的大多数同僚更具慧眼。他们之前的两部作品《幻想岛》和《失灵的上帝》分析了其中的原因和罪魁祸首。所以他们最新的这本看空英国的作品预测英国将会即刻失去自己的发达国家地位，早已有了一个既定的读者群。 Or is that what they claim? The authors do not really suggest that Britain s GDP per head willplummet to the levels of sub- Saharan Africa, or that the country will lose the title ofadvanced economy bestowed on it by the International Monetary Fund. Instead, Britain sthird-world status is signified by a bunch of qualitative factors: public and commercialservices work badly, the average person is becoming poorer rather than richer, the economyhas been pulled horribly out of shape and government in the widest sense is hopelesslydysfunctional, with different branches of the state frequently at loggerheads with oneanother. | 
