Extractive Capitalism and Britain's 200 Year High Inequality/high Poverty Cycle.
For its first seminar of the 2021-22 academic year, the Research Centre on the English Speaking World of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle will welcome Stewart Lansley for his new book The Richer, the Poorer, How Britain enriched the Few and failed the Poor, a 200 Year History (Bristol University Press, 2021). The original event in July was cancelled for health reasons.
Stewart Lansley will draw on his new book to show the mechanisms which link the process of enrichment and impoverishment, and how Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.
Stewart Lansley is visiting fellow at the University of Bristol and specialises in the study of poverty and inequalities in the UK. He helped redefine poverty in the 1980s by publishing Poor Britain with Joanna Mack and using “a consensual methodology” for measuring poverty. He is the author of many books including A Basic Income For All (Compass 2019) and Breadline Britain (Oneworld, 2015). He is a member of the Council of the Progressive Economy Forum and a research associate of the think-tank Compass.
The seminar will take place online on GoogleMeet on 12 October between 3.00 pm and 5.00 pm GMT.
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You will find a short summary of the book below.
Regards,
David Fée
Professor of British Studies
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
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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, the book asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards? Why has social progress been so narrowly shared? What needs to be done to break Britain’s destructive poverty/inequality cycle?
“Scrupulous, impressive and irrefutable. An utterly necessary book.” David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain
"Lansley is a master of the telling anecdote and has produced a wonderfully readable and insightful history of how the rich have impoverished the poor." Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York
The book can be purchased at a pre-publication discount.
code POTRTP30, valid for 30% discount when pre-ordered here before 31 October: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-richer-the-poorer
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