The Cost of Inequality
Why Economic Equality is Essential for Recovery
Examines the macro-economic consequences of high concentrations of income and wealth. Shows that allowing the gains from growing prosperity to be heavily colonised by a small super-rich global elite has sucked the lifeblood out of productive enterprise and intensified the risk of national and global crisis. Provides compelling evidence that global capitalism is little more than a wealth-diverting machine, geared to enriching the few at the expense of the rest.
Reviews
Exposes the economic catastrophe that afflicts the western world: neoliberalism has created consumer societies in which millions are so poor they cannot afford to consume. Book of the Year, New Statesman
Compelling…. the central arguments of Lansley’s book – and the solutions he proposes – deserve a wide hearing and an urgent place on the policy agenda, Times Higher Education
Seminal, The Guardian
