There are many studies of wealth and poverty, says Lansky, but telling the two stories side-by-side reveals the degree to which the apparently separate fates of rich and poor have been critically linked. He investigates the impact of personal enrichment by the few on the livelihoods, life chances, and incomes of the many. Then he asks whether it has been right for British policymakers of the past two centuries to treat poverty as a largely distinct condition independent of the structural forces that determine how the economic cake is sliced. Distributed in the US by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This landmark book charts the roller coaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link them. Stewart Lansley examines the ideological rifts that have driven society back to the divisions of the past and asks why rich and poor citizens are still judged by very different standards.
The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britains most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.Stewart Lansley reveals how Britains model of extractive capitalism with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic cake has created a two-century-long high-inequality, high-poverty cycle, one broken for only a brief period after the Second World War. Why, he asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards? Why has social progress been so narrowly shared? With growing calls for a fairer post-COVID-19 society, what needs to be done to break Britains destructive poverty/inequality cycle?
