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Autore |
Taylor Paul |
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Titolo |
The careless state : wealth and welfare in Britain today / / Paul Taylor |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development - Great Britain |
Income distribution - Great Britain |
Public welfare - Great Britain |
Wealth - Moral and ethical aspects |
Wealth - Great Britain |
Welfare economics |
Welfare state - Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The Trickle up Effect: What is the State for? -- How the Somewhat Better-Off Became Much Worse Off and Why it Made Them Angry -- The Strange Ways of Spending and Saving Public Money in Britain and Their Consequences -- Projecting the Trends: Another Dystopia? -- How the Bubble was Inflated in Britain - and Elsewhere - and the Trouble it Caused -- In the Company of the Uber-Capitalists: Living with the Extremely Rich -- Good Things and Bad Things: The New Front -- A Modern Walden: Genteel Poverty and Being Comfortably Off -- Changing Course: How to Fix it. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This book considers the social and economic damage wrought by neo-liberalism, in Britain and beyond. Paul Taylor analyses the effects of the increasing inequalities of income and wealth in recent years, concluding that a wide range of problems for the middle sections of society can be traced to the appearance of a class of the ' ber-rich', the example they set and the demands they make. He takes the view that what has happened is the opposite of the much vaunted 'trickle-down effect'; there is actually a 'trickle-up effect' not only in the distribution of wealth but also in the ownership of property and access to |
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