The Cost of Inequality
Three Decades of the Super-rich and the Economy
Stewart Lansley(Author)
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 4. August 2011
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Hardback
320 pages
978-1-908096-06-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-908096-06-7 (9781908096067)
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Person
Stewart Lansley is an economist, financial journalist and award-winning TV producer. A research fellow at the University of Bristol, he is the author of Poor Britain (with Joanna Mack), Rich Britain and a biography of Philip Green. He has written for academic and specialist journals as well as the Guardian, Independent and Sunday Times, and has held academic posts at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Universities of Reading and Brunel. He lives in London.