What's Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It
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"Passionately written, engaging and topical."
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LSE Politics Blog
“A proactive, activist and passionate proposal fighting for restoring ‘faith in a politics of social justice”
International Sociology Reviews
"This trenchant critique shows how orthodox social policy, grounded in the neo-liberal economic model, is ill-designed to respond to the financial crisis. It should oblige all those dealing with British social policy to question the direction being taken."
Guy Standing, University of Bath
"Breaks important new theoretical ground for a social and community-nurturing vision in the new economic era."
Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland and author of America Beyond Capitalism
This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. In seeking to manage social relationships through incentives for individual gain, market-like menus of choices and business-style sets of interlocking contracts, the model adopted by the governments of the UK and USA has subverted the basis for social policy in mutuality and membership. Les mer
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Bill Jordan's up-to-date, passionate and engaging argument forges convincing links between a wide range of the troubling phenomena in the public life of our times.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Polity Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 232
- ISBN
- 9780745647401
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
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«
"Passionately written, engaging and topical."
»
LSE Politics Blog
“A proactive, activist and passionate proposal fighting for restoring ‘faith in a politics of social justice”
International Sociology Reviews
"This trenchant critique shows how orthodox social policy, grounded in the neo-liberal economic model, is ill-designed to respond to the financial crisis. It should oblige all those dealing with British social policy to question the direction being taken."
Guy Standing, University of Bath
"Breaks important new theoretical ground for a social and community-nurturing vision in the new economic era."
Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland and author of America Beyond Capitalism