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Print Price: $74.95

Format:
Paperback
320 pp.
numerous figures and tables, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199276646

Publication date:
September 2005

Imprint: OUP UK


Inequality and the State

John Hills

Readership : Academics, researchers, and students of social and public policy, sociology, and economics. Policy-makers in central government, and serious lay readers.

1. Introduction
Part 1: Income inequality and poverty in Britain
2. Income inequality in the UK: extent and trends
3. Poverty, deprivation, and exclusion
4. Why has the income distribution changed?
5. Income dynamics and social mobility
Part 2: The impact of policy
6. Social spending and the boundaries between public and private sectors
7. Tax and welfare
8. Distribution and redistribution
Part 3: Where do we go from here?
9. New Labour, welfare, and distribution
10. Constraints and pressures
11. Conclusions: The spending pit or the tax pendulum?

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John Hills is Director of CASE and Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He was Co-Director of the LSE's Welfare State Programme, and has worked as an economist and advisor in governental and non-governmental institutions in the UK and internationally.

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Special Features

  • Based on the latest authoritative research from the LSE group, the book presents hard evidence on a high profile and controversial area of government policy.
  • Covers key issues in the debate about domestic policy and politics in the UK, focusing on some of the most important contemporary social issues
  • Accessible to a wide range of readers.
  • Extensive graphs and tables provide a comprehensive source of information on inequality, poverty, government spending, and taxation, and on public attitudes towards the issues covered.
  • Each chapter concludes with a summary and a guide to further reading and information sources.