Breadline Britain

We are pleased and excited to make the acquaintance of top author Stewart Lansley. Stewart’s new book ‘Breadline Britain’ authors Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack, one World Publishing, is currently making waves and we may well review the book in the near future if we get a free copy of course, hint, hint! (eds note).  

Shortly we are adding a Directory Category > Publications. There are some excellent publications in the field of ‘Pension and Benefits’ and we intend bringing news of these in the future.

This is one of Stewart’s previous publications.

Book - The Cost of Equality by Stewart Lansley

The book argues that the real roots of the current crisis lie in the way the gains from growing prosperity – in the UK, US and a number of other rich countries - have been increasingly colonised by a small super-rich global elite. Growing inequality had squeezed incomes, sucked the lifeblood out of the productive economy and made the British and global economy much more prone to crisis.

It provides compelling evidence that British and American capitalism has become little more than a wealth-diverting machine, geared to enriching the few at the expense of the rest. Escape from the crisis and building a sustainable recovery depends on a more equal distribution of the cake.

Stewart Lansley – in his own words.

Stewart Lansley is an economist and financial journalist. He is a visiting fellow at the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and has written on inequality, wealth and poverty for academic and specialist journals as well as the Guardian, Observer and Independent.

He is the author of a number of books including The Cost of Inequality (2011); Top Man (a biography of Philip Green, 2007); Rich Britain (2006) and Poor Britain (with Joanna Mack, 1985). His previous academic posts include the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Henley Centre and the Universities of Brunel and Reading. He is also a former executive producer in the current affairs department of the BBC.