When Nothing Works

From Cost of Living to Foundational Liveability

Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7370-6 (ISBN)

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What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure. -- .

It’s hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and a new approach to tackling them.

Economic growth and higher wages, the traditional responses of mainstream politicians, are simply not enough. This is because the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is only the face of a deeper crisis of foundational liveability. The UK is confronted not only with squeezed residual incomes but also failing public services and decaying social infrastructure. The only way out is to embrace a political practice of adaptive reuse that works around the constraints that frustrate mainstream policies.

Presenting a new model for the three pillars of liveability – disposable and residual income, essential services and social infrastructure – When nothing works challenges the assumptions of left and right in the UK political classes and offers a fresh approach to the economically visible and politically actionable. -- .

Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams are principals in the UK-based Foundational Economy Research Limited, whose recent research reports can be found at: foundationaleconomyresearch.com They are also members of the Foundational Economy Collective of mainly European academic researchers, whose website gives an overview of their outputs and activities at: foundationaleconomy.com -- .

Introduction: behind the great anxiety

Part I: Why we need to change the lens
1 Economic policy as quagmire

Part II: Rethinking the economy
2 Households and foundational liveability
3 Inequalities between households and places

Part III: The mess we’re in
4 Nothing works
5 Why the low paid need more than a pay rise

Part IV: What to do
6 What to do? Politics and policy

Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Manchester Capitalism
Zusatzinfo	41 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5261-7370-0 / 1526173700
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-7370-6 / 9781526173706
Zustand	Neuware