What Price Housing?

Stewart Lansley

Sue Goss

SHAC (London Housing Aid Centre)

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 has shifted power from the workforce to corporations and swelled the ranks of the working poor, a group increasingly at the mercy of low-pay, zero-hour contracts and downward social mobility.The high levels of poverty in the UK are not ordained but can be traced directly to the political choices taken by successive governments. Lansley and Mack outline an alternative economic and social strategy that is both perfectly feasible and urgently necessary if we are to reverse the course of the last three decades.

Breadline Britain

Oneworld Publications

Why does the modern economy consist of two tracks: a fast one for the super-rich and a stalled one for everyone else? What decisions led to this split three decades ago, and were their goals realised? What is the cost of a two-track economy? Have the real solutions to the 2008-9 crisis been missed? This ground-breaking book, based on years of research, seeks to answer these questions and provide the hard evidence: - for the economic case for dismantling the economy for the super-rich; - that deregulation failed to deliver innovation and economic revival; - for new policies that avoid the looming permanent recession. At a time when top investors such as Warren Buffett call for an end to the coddling of billionaires, this urgent, provocative book provides a radical new way of thinking for ending the economic deadlock.

The Cost of Inequality: Thirty Years of the Super-rich and the Economy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Gibson Square Books

What failed the 1980s mantra that inequality would lead to robust economies? Why does the modern economy consist of two tracks: a fast one for the super-rich and a stalled one for everyone else? What is the cost of a consumer economy without purchasing power? This ground-breaking book, based on years of research, shows that greater equality will lead us out of permanent recession.

The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality is Essential for Recovery

Business & Money

Economics

Gibson Square Books Ltd

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