THE COST OF INEQUALITY: THREE DECADES OF THE SUPER-RICH AND THE ECONOMY

Book ID/图书代码： 00530011B48523

English Summary/英文概要： Why does the modern economy consist of two tracks: a fast one for the super-rich and a stalled one for everyone else? What decisions led to this split three decades ago, and were their goals realised? What is the cost of a two-track economy? Have the real solutions to the 2008-9 been missed?

This ground-breaking book, based on years of research, seeks to answer these questions and provide the hard evidence:

- for the economic case for dismantling the economy for the super-rich;

- that deregulation failed to deliver innovation and economic revival;

- for new policies that avoid the looming permanent recession.

At a time when top investors such as Warren Buffett call for an end to the coddling of billionaires, this urgent and provocative book provides a new way of thinking for ending the economic deadlock.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 现代经济为何会有两个轨迹：一个是超级富豪们的专用超速轨道，而另一个却是其他所有人的失速的轨道。三十年前，是一个怎样的决定导致了这一分歧的发生？现如今，决策者又是否实现了预期的目标？ 而双轨制经济的代价又是什么呢？

在这部开辟先河的作品中，作者基于多年的研究，回答了如下的问题并提供了确凿的证据：

-废除富豪经济的经济法案

-放松管制不能实现革新和经济复苏

-为避免迫在眉睫的永久经济衰退而制定的新政策

当诸如沃伦.巴菲特一样的顶级投资者呼喊着结束放纵富豪的口号时，本书提出了一种结束经济僵局的全新思维方式。(兼职翻译FSF)

Awards/获奖情况：’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 Supplement

’Stewart Lansley’s The Cost of Inequality exposes the truth about the economic catastrophe that afflicts the western world: neoliberalism has created consumer societies in which millions are so poor that they cannot afford to consume.’---Peter Wilby - Book of the Year New Statesman

’Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reasons behind the astonishing growth in inequality in the UK and US over the past 30 years and why it helped to bring about the unprecedented economic crisis we are all now facing. Readable, well-argued and a devastating critique of neo-liberal laissez-faire economics that has allowed the growth of a new generation of super-rich Robber Barrons by economist and financial journalist Stewart Lansley.’---Nial Cooper, Church Action on Poverty

About the Author/作者介绍： Stewart Lansley is a writer and economic consultant. After university he became an academic economist holding research posts at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Centre for Environmental Studies specialising in poverty, inequality and wealth.
He has also taught at the Universities of Reading and Brunel. He then moved into television journalism, producing many television series including Breadline Britain, Death of Apartheid, Kenyon Confronts and Food Junkies. He holds awards from the BFI, the New York TV and Film Festival, Sony, Amnesty and was nominated for a documentary Emmy ( for Death of Apartheid ). He became an executive producer at the BBC in the current affairs department and was the Editor of the 5 Live Report, a weekly investigative radio series, for seven years until 2008.
He has written extensively on social and economic issues for a variety of journals, magazines and newspapers. He was the joint author of Poor Britain, published in 1985, which devised a new approach to defining poverty using a methodolgy that has been used by researchers and governments in Britain, the European Union and a number of other countries from Japan to South Africa. His most recent books include Top Man, a biography of Philip Green, Rich Britain: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Wealthy, Londongrad: From Russia with Cash and The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy .
Stewart Lansley 是一名作家兼经济顾问，大学毕业后就任国家经济社会研究院及环境研究中心学术经济学家的研究岗位，专门从事贫富不平等的研究。后来转行到广播电视行业，制作了很多系列电视节目，包括 Breadline Britain, Death of Apartheid, Kenyon Confronts and Food Junkies。Stewart 还赢得过英国电影协会奖项。后来成为BBC公司时事部门的执行制片人，之后又在一档叫做5 Live Report的系列广播节目担任剪辑工作，直到2008年。
他还为很多期刊、报纸及杂志撰写了大量的社会经济方面的文章。他与人合著的Poor Britain于1985年出版，找到了一种为贫穷定义的新的研究方法，而这种方法在英国、欧洲联盟国家以及从日本到南非的其他国家早已被研究人员和政府所使用。最新作品包括《头号人物：菲利普.格林的传记》(Top Man, a biography of Philip Green), 《富裕的英国》（Rich Britain: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Wealthy）, 《伦敦格勒》（Londongrad: From Russia with Cash》以及本书《不平等的代价》 （The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy）。

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