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What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulating for the common good? Anthony Crosland's The Future of Sociali...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hain, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2015.
Temas:
Socialism > Great Britain.
Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Socialism
Socialdemokrati.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Back to the future of socialism
  • The spirit and soul of the Labour Party
  • 1. The Crosland agenda
  • The Crosland thesis
  • 2. New Labour, Crosland and the crisis
  • Then came the crisis
  • Labour's response
  • Labour's economic record 1997-2010
  • How New Labour measured up
  • Summary
  • 3. Finance and the new capitalism
  • The financial elite
  • A new era
  • How finance capitalism changed
  • The rise of risk
  • Pass the parcel
  • Governments to the rescue
  • The costs of recession
  • The new capitalism
  • To the brink
  • 4. Growth not cuts
  • The consequences of austerity
  • Debt, deficits and growth
  • Borrowing and spending
  • Spare capacity for growth
  • Alternative to austerity
  • 5. Growth by active government
  • A financial not a spending crisis
  • Social cohesion depends upon active government
  • Why growth depends on government
  • Technological innovation
  • The government factor
  • Social infrastructure and public investment
  • Challenging old ideas
  • Financial reform
  • Ensuring banking backs growth
  • National Economic Development Council
  • New Labour non-interventionism
  • Market failure
  • Government's key role
  • Entrepreneurial government
  • Active industrial policy
  • 6. Fraternity, cooperation, trade unionism
  • Cooperation spurned
  • British trade unionism at the crossroads
  • Union priorities
  • A shrinking rank and file base
  • Recognition by employers
  • Working together for results
  • New framework for cooperation
  • 7. But what sort of socialist state?
  • Neoliberalism, democratic legitimacy and society
  • British socialist roots
  • Retreat from libertarian socialism
  • Guild socialism
  • Centralised collectivism
  • Impact upon Labour
  • A participatory democracy
  • Devolution or separatism?
  • A more 'federal' UK?.
  • The failure of 'popular capitalism'
  • 'Free' schools
  • Participatory socialism
  • Markets
  • Regulation and ownership
  • Conclusion
  • 8. A new internationalism
  • Food and water shortages
  • International problems, international solutions
  • Globalisation and interdependency
  • Stronger international institutions in a multipolar world
  • Europe
  • Social justice and global stability
  • Women: a global injustice
  • Human rights, liberty and democracy
  • Climate change
  • Renewable energy in Africa
  • 9. Britain in Europe
  • Europe's place in the world
  • Europe's evolution
  • Growth not austerity
  • Britain in Europe
  • The withdrawal fallacy
  • Trade
  • Foreign direct investment
  • British Europeans
  • Practical Europeanism
  • European reform
  • Sometimes less, sometimes more Europe
  • 10. Refounding Labour
  • Recent trends in Britain
  • Changing political culture
  • Multiparty government
  • Councillors and communities
  • Supporters not joiners
  • Labour's challenge
  • Affiliated trade union members
  • Importance of local campaigning
  • Community organising
  • Party organisation
  • New media and new technology
  • Less a party, more a movement
  • 11. Faster, sustainable growth
  • Austerity or bust?
  • The prospects for public spending: aspiration and anxiety
  • The room for expansion
  • Output gap
  • Two-year public investment plan for faster sustainable growth
  • Housing
  • Infrastructure
  • Low-carbon/green growth
  • The Severn Barrage
  • Action on skills
  • 12. A fairer, more equal society
  • Taxation
  • Seven-point programme of tax reform
  • Financing students and universities
  • Welfare reform
  • Ageing society
  • Universal, affordable childcare
  • 13. A future for Labour
  • A future for socialism
  • Growth again
  • Greater equality our mission
  • Overview
  • Bold ambitions
  • Notes
  • Index.

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