Flawed capitalism: the Anglo-American condition and its resolution
β Scribed by Coates, David
- Publisher
- Agenda Publishing
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 567 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- ISBN
- 1911116347
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β¦ Synopsis
Drawing on over four decades of research and writing on the political economy of the UK and United States, David Coates offers a masterly account of the Anglo-American condition and the social and economic crisis besetting both countries. Charting the rise and fall of the social settlements that have shaped and defined the postwar years, Coates traces the history of the two economies through first their New Deal and then their Reaganite periods β ones labelled differently in the UK, but similarly marked by the development first of a Keynesian welfare state and then a Thatcherite neoliberal one. Coates exposes the failings and shortcomings of the Reagan/Thatcher years, showing how the underlying fragility of a settlement based on the weakening of organized labour and the extensive deregulation of business culminated in the financial crisis of 2008. The legacies of that crisis haunt us still β a squeezed middle class, further embedded poverty, deepened racial divisions,...
β¦ Subjects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference
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