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Could social wealth funds reduce inequality and tackle austerity? A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on international examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilizing the huge financial potential of UK public assets could pay for a pioneering new social wealth fund. By strengthening the social assets base, such a fund would boost economic and social investment and simultaneously strengthen public finances. Social wealth funds could also, he argues, ensure that more of the gains from economic activity are...

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth - is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.

Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack track changes in deprivation and paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its causes. Shattering the myth that poverty is the fault of the poor and a...

Experts, well known figures and key thinkers from across the world explore the concept of a Universal Basic Income. Including international case studies, this engaging book provides an indispensable guide to an innovative policy idea, and contributes to wider conversations about the future of work and the role of welfare in the 21st Century.