Why capitalists need communists : the politics of flourishing / by Charles Seaford.
Seaford, Charles.
2019
HC256.7 .S43 2019
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Title Why capitalists need communists : the politics of flourishing / by Charles Seaford.
Author Seaford, Charles.
ISBN 9783319987552 (electronic book)
3319987550 (electronic book)
3319987542
9783319987545
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2019 : Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-98
Call Number HC256.7 .S43 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 320
Summary Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. At the same time, the political and economic elite seem to have reached an impasse: there is a sense that things can only get worse. In Why Capitalists Need Communists, Charles Seaford demonstrates that this need not be, that radical, progressive change is perfectly possible and that the polarisation and nostalgia afflicting us is not inevitable. History shows that it is precisely when the ruling elite loses confidence - which it has - that significant change happens and that new alliances are formed to take over. Tackling the challenges will take planning, redistribution, re-fashioned business and finance, and a new ideology - one which confirms that we really can create the conditions for more people to flourish. But this is not a pipe-dream. This book sets out just how this can come about, based on interviews with over 50 business people, politicians, analysts and activists. Everyone with an interest in the future should read it. Charles Seaford is a co-investigator at the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, UK, and was formerly Head of the Centre for Wellbeing at the New Economics Foundation.
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Series Wellbeing in politics and policy.
Available in Other Form Why Capitalists Need Communists.
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1: Introduction
2: Dystopia and Utopia
3: Flourishing and its Role
4: Change in the Past (1)
5: Change in the Past (2)
6: A Stagnant Society?
7: Planning
8: Redistribution
9: The Systems Limits
10: Structural Change
Epilogue: Where Now?

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