The Return of the State: Restructuring Britain for the Common Good - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788213297 ISBN 13: 9781788213295

Verlag: Agenda Publishing - IPSUK, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers both a vision of a future Britain and a roadmap to getting there. It is now clear that the Covid-19 pandemic hit the UK harder than other countries in Europe not least because of the government's ill-timed and ill-conceived response, but also because of the chronic failure of the state to fund public services adequately and to reduce societal inequality in the neoliberal decades since 1979. Pushed by crisis, the government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had vocally championed for a decade - policies that undoubtedly created a divided country and precipitated a Brexit vote that has since consumed parliament and stymied social progress.

The role of the state is now in sharp focus: the contributors to this book assesses what that role should be and how it should be harnessed for the good of the British people in all four of its nations. They call for nothing short of a new settlement and a complete redesign of the economy. The contributors argue passionately and persuasively for a state that is properly funded, one that looks after its citizens regardless of age, class or ethnicity and enables them to live well. To do this requires the establishment of a functional, fair and green economy managed with a social and public purpose.

Bringing together some of the brightest and most-engaged scholars and thinkers in the UK, this book offers solutions and suggestions for how to re-establish the strong state, how to generate a new social settlement and how to manage a long-term and equitable economic recovery post-pandemic.

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Patrick Allen (Edited by)
Patrick Allen is chair and founder of the Progressive Economy Forum. He is also founder and senior partner at the law firm, Hodge Jones & Allen.

Suzanne J. Konzelmann (Edited by)
Suzanne J. Konzelmann is Reader in Management at Birkbeck, University of London. Her most recent book is Austerity (2019).

Jan Toporowski (Edited by)
Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS, University of London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Agenda Publishing - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788213297
• ISBN 13: 9781788213295
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Herausgeber: Allen Patrick, Konzelmann Suzanne J., Toporowski Jan
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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