LEADER 03528nam 22006131 450 001 9910132635203321 005 20101206144341.0 010 $a1-84966-100-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781849661003 035 $a(CKB)3680000000164621 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413570 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299777 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413570 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381086 035 $a(PQKB)11358248 035 $a(OCoLC)676696328 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255643 035 $a(EXLCZ)993680000000164621 100 $a20140929d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe careless state $ewealth and welfare in Britain today /$fPaul Taylor 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$aPrint version: 9781849660013 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aEconomic development$zGreat Britain 606 $aIncome distribution$zGreat Britain 606 $aPublic welfare$zGreat Britain 606 $aWealth$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aWealth$zGreat Britain 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aWelfare state$zGreat Britain 606 $2Social services & welfare, criminology 615 0$aEconomic development 615 0$aIncome distribution 615 0$aPublic welfare 615 0$aWealth$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aWealth 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 0$aWelfare state 700 $aTaylor$b Paul$0350655 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910132635203321 996 $aCareless State$91802449 997 $aUNINA