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Informationen zum Autor Paul Taylor is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics. His recent books include: The End of European Integration: Anti- Europeanism Explained (2007) and The United Nations at the Millennium (with A.J.R. Groom, 2000). Paul Taylor is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Zusammenfassung Considers the social and economic damage wrought by neo-liberalism - in Britain and beyond. This work analyses the effects of the inequalities of income and wealth, and concludes that a range of problems for the middle sections of society can be traced to the appearance of a class of the uber-rich, the example they set and the demands they make. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 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.
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Introduction; 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.
