The careless state : wealth and welfare in Britain today / / Paul Taylor

• Record Nr.: UNISA996214903103316
• Autore: Taylor Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-84966-100-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages)
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 ; education, medicine and the law. He goes on to look at the government's failure to deal effectively with these problems, putting them in the context of the need to deal with the threat of terrorism and the effects of globalization. The book is highly relevant to the current crisis in the global financial system, especially with regard to its effects in the UK and USA, but it places that crisis in the context of wider developments."--Bloomsbury Publishing.