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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:51:32Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:51:32Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781849663557_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58674
dc.description.abstractThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems & structures
dc.subject.otherPolitical economy
dc.titleThe Careless State
dc.title.alternativeWealth and Welfare in Britain Today
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781849661003
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781849663557
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages240
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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