Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow at the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and the author of The Richer, The Poorer, How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor - a 200-year history, Bristol University Press, 2021.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPundits say British politics is undergoing a post-neoliberal shift. They’re wrong
On the contrary, the new capitalist variant may look much like the old
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Published in: ourEconomyFree basic services are no substitute for a condition-free income floor
A decent future for all depends on building a more secure income base and rebuilding our badly depleted public services.
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Published in: ourEconomyA basic income is feasible and affordable
New research shows that introducing a guaranteed income floor would cut poverty, narrow inequality and reduce...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTalk is not enough: tackling inequality is now an economic imperative
It has long been recognised that extreme inequality has many serious social consequences, as well as causing...
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Published in: openEconomyTackling inequality: a new role for the state
In the last thirty years, a rising share of the global economic pie has been colonised by the world’s rich. It is...
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Published in: openEconomyHow the wage squeeze fuelled the crash and threatens recovery
As part of his TUC touchstone report "Unfair to Middling: How Middle Income Britain's Shrinking Wages Fuelled the...