Quantitative Easing for the people: the antidote to market fundamentalism?
In ‘A Sharing Economy’, Stewart Lansley argues that social wealth funds could reduce inequality and strengthen economies
Stewart Lansley
The coalition facilitated the rise of mass poverty
George Osborne may be a bad chancellor but he’s a good right-wing ideologue
A reply to Nick Pearce: Why Labour must stick to child poverty targets
First, for the last 30 years, poverty in the UK has hovered close to the one-in-five mark, mostly a little below, but sometimes a little above, but a rate almost double the level of the 1970s and much higher than the average amongst other rich nations.
This has been driven by a sustained widening in the gap between top and bottom along with the erosion of life chances.
Britain’s economic model is deeply flawed, but the government is doing nothing
One of the fundamental faultlines of the British model of finance capitalism – its failure to steer resources into the real, productive base of the economy – is not even on the government’s agenda. That’s why the prospect of sustained recovery is proving so elusive.
“You’ve never had it so good” has never been so wrong: Review of The Cost of Inequality
Carl Packman reviews Stewart Lansley’s “The Cost of Inequality,” and loves it.
Class, inequality and the state at the Fabian conference
Carl Packman reports back on the class, inequality and the state session at the Fabian Society New Year Conference.
Inequality must be ended to prevent another financial crisis
Stewart Lansley argues that high income inequality leads to economic slumps; we can only solve the latter if we deal with the former