| 书目名称 | The Fault Lines of Inequality | | 副标题 | COVID 19 and the Pol | | 编辑 | Huw Macartney,Johnna Montgomerie,Daniela Tepe | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Assesses the political decisions taken by UK policymakers during 2020-21, and their consequences.Challenges policymakers and the informed public to reconsider the morality of inequality.Highlights tha | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book examines how decisions made by the Conservative government during the COVID19 pandemic have increased economic inequality in the UK. Decades of austerity, asset-based welfare and financialization had already exacerbated social divisions in the UK prior to the pandemic. The political blueprint behind these measures combined Privatized Keynesianism and the Asset Economy. To explain, economists have highlighted that inequality derives from the fact that income from wealth increases at a faster rate than income from wages. The ensuing political assumption is that – in the face of pressures on public finances – promoting asset ownership is the best alternative to government-funded welfare schemes. What this meant, as the pandemic unfolded, was that when tough decisions about resource allocation needed to be made, the UK Treasury and the Bank of England found almost unlimited funds to rescue and protect asset-holders and middle-income homeowners, whilst reverting to a narrative of “misfortune” for the asset-less poor. This book assesses the political decisions taken by UK policymakers during 2020-21 and their consequences. In doing so, it challenges policymakers and the inform | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Inequality; UK Policy; Covid-19; Financialization; Asset economy | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96914-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-96914-1 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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