A sharing economy : how social wealth funds can tackle inequality and balance the books / Stewart Lansley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lansley, Stewart, author.

Series:

Policy Press shorts. Insights

Policy Press shorts. Insights.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investment of public funds--Great Britain.

Investment of public funds.

Public investments--Great Britain.

Public investments.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 150 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Summary:

Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished, A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential of Britain's public assets could pay for a pioneering new social wealth fund. Such a fund would boost economic and social investment, and, by building the social asset base, simultaneously strengthen the public finances. A powerful new policy tool, such funds would ensure that more of the gains from economic activity are shared by all and not colonised by a powerful few. This is a vital new contribution to the pressing debate on how to reduce inequality and combat austerity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 'All-out assault': inequality and corporate capitalism 1

2 Too big to fail: the dominance of private capital 11

3 Fair shares: social wealth funds and the sharing of national wealth 29

4 The international experience: what can we learn? 41

5 How to pay for the UK's first social wealth fund 55

6 Power cut: the dilution of capital ownership and a citizen's payment 77

7 An income for all: can a citizen's income work? 89

8 From the drawing board to reality 105

9 Towards a sharing economy 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447331438

1447331435

OCLC:

948262122