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The Richer, The Poorer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

The Richer, The Poorer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-25
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This landmark book charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link them. Stewart Lansley examines the ideological rifts that have driven society back to the divisions of the past and asks why rich and poor citizens are still judged by very different standards.

Breadline Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Breadline Britain

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet. Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack track changes in deprivation and paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its causes. Shattering the myth that poverty is the fault of the poor and a generous benefit system, they show that the blame lies with the massive social and economic upheaval that h...

A Sharing Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

A Sharing Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-16
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the UK’s growing income gap and spread social opportunities. A new social wealth fund would boost economic and social investment and simultaneously strengthen the public finances and offer a powerful antidote to austerity.

Poor Britain
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 356

Poor Britain

Studie over de armoede onder de bevolking in het huidige Engeland.

It's Basic Income
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

It's Basic Income

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-03-14
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Is a Universal Basic Income the answer to an increasingly precarious job landscape? Could it bring greater financial freedom for women, tackle the issue of unpaid but essential work, cut poverty and promote greater choice? Or is it a dead-end utopian ideal that distracts from more practical and cost-effective solutions? Contributors from musician Brian Eno, think tank Demos Helsinki, innovators such as California’s Y Combinator Research and prominent academics such as Peter Beresford OBE offer a variety of perspectives from across the globe on the politics and feasibility of basic income. Sharing research and insights from a variety of nations – including India, Finland, Uganda, Brazil and Canada - the collection provides a comprehensive guide to the impact this innovative idea could have on work, welfare and inequality in the 21st century.

Rich Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Rich Britain

Stewart Lansley explores the tearaway growth in the rich, among bankers, company directors as well as entrepreneurs and the traditional landowners. Offering well-researched details and information, it provides an insight into the remarkable economic shift taking place in Britain.

The Cost of Inequality
  • Language: en

The Cost of Inequality

How are we to regain economic growth? In this seminal new book based on 60 years of data, economist Stewart Lansley shows that economic equality is necessary for economic growth. Like a tumour, the economy for the rich has grown at least 10-fold in countries like Britain and the US, sucking in ever-increasing quantities of money away from circulating in the real economy. Thirty years after the creed that inequality is good for us all, The Cost of Inequality shows that the experiment has failed. If we want to avoid a state of permanent recession in the west, we need to dismantle the economy of the rich.

Top Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

Top Man

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-09-08
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  • Publisher: Aurum

Philip Green, owner of, amongst much else, British Home Stores, reached billionaire status faster than anyone else in British history. Today he is worth £3.6 billion and is reckoned to be the country’s fourth richest citizen. A middle-class Jewish boy from North London who left school at fifteen, Green started and failed with four businesses before he made it with Jean Jeannie, which he sold to Lee Cooper for an enormous profit that set him on the road to fame and fortune. But there were pitfalls on the way, his involvement with Amber Day, a public company, left him with an abiding dislike for both the City establishment and outside investors. Ever since, he has relied upon a close group ...

Transfer State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Transfer State

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book provides the first detailed history of guaranteed income schemes in modern Britain. It examines past and present British social policy debate to argue that the case for recasting the UK's transfer state to incorporate a Universal Basic Income is increasingly powerful.

The Richer, The Poorer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

The Richer, The Poorer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-25
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

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?