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Stewart Lansley - Richer, The Poorer, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Richer, The Poorer

How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History

Av Stewart Lansley

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Beskrivning
The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain’s model of ‘extractive capitalism’ – with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic cake – has created a two-century-long ‘high-inequality, high-poverty’ cycle, one broken for only a brief period after the Second World War. Why, he asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards? Why has social progress been so narrowly shared? With growing calls for a fairer post-COVID-19 society, what needs to be done to break Britain’s destructive poverty/inequality cycle?
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-11-25
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 482 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 318
  • Förlag: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN: 9781447363217
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Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Research Associate at the Compass think-tank. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality. His recent books include A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline Britain, The Rise of Mass Poverty (with Joanna Mack, 2015) and The Cost of Inequality (2011).

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“A resource that can help us make up our own minds about extremes of wealth and poverty, privilege and want, instead of being encouraged to ‘other’ welfare claimants and kid ourselves we share the interests of the profiteering one per cent. We should arm ourselves with it in all our anti-poverty struggles.” Cost of Living

Betyg & recensioner

1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Alexander T

    Har fascinerat av hur det har gått för Storbritannien genom historien. Denna bok tar upp den ekonomiska utvecklingen och hur den påverka befolkningen under 200 år, från 1800-talet till idag. Man kan se dess inflytande på oss i Sverige idag genom politiken. Detta ger man gåshud eftersom hur man såg på befolkningen, en form av förtryck i termer av ekonomi. Språket är ibland tungt.
    Rekommendera även boken "Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution" av Jane Humphries. "Från fattigdom till välstånd" av Christopher Lagerqvist rekommenderas också.