Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 480 g
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 480 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927664-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
'For all its charts and its quantitative exposition of trends in spending and income distribution - which alone would make it valuable - this is also an intensely political book, because it is about collective choice. Its central question deserves pondering by everyone concerned either to raise money from the public or to spend it.' -Public
'John Hills, an LSE professor who also sits on the influential Turner commission on pensions, assembles a plethora of evidence to show that we face pressing question about how much we want the state to do to tackle poverty and social division.' -The Observer
Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society. This book analyses the dramatic widening of the income distribution, the growth of poverty, and the factors that have driven them. It examines how government spending and the taxes that pay for it affect people's incomes, why they take the forms they do, what we think of them, how things have changed since New Labour came to power in 1997, and the future pressures that any government will face as the population ages.
Contents
1 Introduction
Part 1: Income inequality and poverty in Britain
2 Income inequality in the UK: extent and trends
3 Poverty, deprivation, and exclusion
4 Why has the income distribution changed?
5 Income dynamics and social mobility
Part 2: The impact of policy
6 Social spending and the boundaries between public and private sectors
7 Tax and welfare
8 Distribution and redistribution
Part 3: Where do we go from here?
9 New Labour, welfare, and distribution
10 Constraints and pressures
11 Conclusions: The spending pit or the tax pendulum?
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'John Hills, an LSE professor who also sits on the influential Turner commission on pensions, assembles a plethora of evidence to show that we face pressing question about how much we want the state to do to tackle poverty and social division.' -The Observer
Since the late 1970s, Britain has become a more unequal society. This book analyses the dramatic widening of the income distribution, the growth of poverty, and the factors that have driven them. It examines how government spending and the taxes that pay for it affect people's incomes, why they take the forms they do, what we think of them, how things have changed since New Labour came to power in 1997, and the future pressures that any government will face as the population ages.
Contents
1 Introduction
Part 1: Income inequality and poverty in Britain
2 Income inequality in the UK: extent and trends
3 Poverty, deprivation, and exclusion
4 Why has the income distribution changed?
5 Income dynamics and social mobility
Part 2: The impact of policy
6 Social spending and the boundaries between public and private sectors
7 Tax and welfare
8 Distribution and redistribution
Part 3: Where do we go from here?
9 New Labour, welfare, and distribution
10 Constraints and pressures
11 Conclusions: The spending pit or the tax pendulum?
Zielgruppe
Academics, researchers, and students of social and public policy, sociology, and economics. Policy-makers in central government, and serious lay readers.
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Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
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