There are plenty of books in this world which will tell you what is wrong with this world. There are fewer books which will tell you what needs to be done to save it and our civilisation from self-destruction. And there are few indeed which tell you exactly how to go about achieving a sweeping overhaul of an entire society.

This little Manifesto is the result of four years of discussion by a group of students reading for their undergraduate degrees at the ancient and elite University of St. Andrews. It is the distillation of the main recommendations of a five hundred thousand word book...