The Richer, The Poorer(English, Paperback, Lansley Stewart)

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The Richer, The Poorer(English, Paperback, Lansley Stewart) is written by Lansley Stewart and published by Bristol University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1447363213 (ISBN 10) and 9781447363217 (ISBN 13).

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, Britain's most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience. Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain's 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 Britain's destructive poverty/inequality cycle?