A Sharing Economy
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A Sharing Economy

How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books

  1. 150 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Sharing Economy

How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Also by Stewart Lansley
  5. Contents
  6. About the author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. 1: ‘All-out assault’: inequality and corporate capitalism
  10. 2: Too big to fail: the dominance of private capital
  11. 3: Fair shares: social wealth funds and the sharing of national wealth
  12. 4: The international experience: what can we learn?
  13. 5: How to pay for the UK’s first social wealth fund
  14. 6: Power cut: the dilution of capital ownership and a citizen’s payment
  15. 7: An income for all: can a citizen’s income work?
  16. 8: From the drawing board to reality
  17. 9: Towards a sharing economy
  18. Notes