The careless state : wealth and welfare in Britain today / / Paul Taylor
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Welfare state - Great Britain |
| Economic development - Great Britain | |
| Welfare economics | |
| Income distribution - Great Britain | |
| Public welfare - Great Britain | |
| Wealth - Great Britain | |
| Wealth - Moral and ethical aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The Careless State; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The trickle-up effect: what is the state for?; CHAPTER TWO: How the somewhat better off became much worse off, and why it made them angry; CHAPTER THREE: The strange ways of spending and saving public money in Britain and their consequences; CHAPTER FOUR: Projecting the trends: another dystopia?; CHAPTER FIVE: How the bubble was inflated in Britain - and elsewhere - and the trouble it caused; CHAPTER SIX: In the company of Über-capitalists: living with the extremely rich |
| CHAPTER SEVEN: Good things and bad things: the new frontCHAPTER EIGHT: A modern Walden: having sufficient means and being comfortably off; CHAPTER NINE: Reflections in the storm; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| 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 'über-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 pr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Careless State |
| ISBN: | 1-282-89460-9 |
| 9786612894602 | |
| 1-84966-036-0 | |
| 1-84966-355-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910597151003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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