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BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Back to the future of socialism -- The spirit and soul of the Labour Party -- 1. The Crosland agenda -- The Crosland thesis -- 2. New Labour, Crosland and the crisis -- Then came the crisis -- Labour's response -- Labour's economic record 1997-2010 -- How New Labour measured up -- Summary -- 3. Finance and the new capitalism -- The financial elite -- A new era -- How finance capitalism changed -- The rise of risk -- Pass the parcel -- Governments to the rescue -- The costs of recession -- The new capitalism -- To the brink -- 4. Growth not cuts -- The consequences of austerity -- Debt, deficits and growth -- Borrowing and spending -- Spare capacity for growth -- Alternative to austerity -- 5. Growth by active government -- A financial not a spending crisis -- Social cohesion depends upon active government -- Why growth depends on government -- Technological innovation -- The government factor -- Social infrastructure and public investment -- Challenging old ideas -- Financial reform -- Ensuring banking backs growth -- National Economic Development Council -- New Labour non-interventionism -- Market failure -- Government's key role -- Entrepreneurial government -- Active industrial policy -- 6. Fraternity, cooperation, trade unionism -- Cooperation spurned -- British trade unionism at the crossroads -- Union priorities -- A shrinking rank and file base -- Recognition by employers -- Working together for results -- New framework for cooperation -- 7. But what sort of socialist state? -- Neoliberalism, democratic legitimacy and society -- British socialist roots -- Retreat from libertarian socialism -- Guild socialism -- Centralised collectivism -- Impact upon Labour -- A participatory democracy -- Devolution or separatism? -- A more 'federal' UK? |
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The failure of 'popular capitalism' -- 'Free' schools -- Participatory socialism -- Markets -- Regulation and ownership -- Conclusion -- 8. A new internationalism -- Food and water shortages -- International problems, international solutions -- Globalisation and interdependency -- Stronger international institutions in a multipolar world -- Europe -- Social justice and global stability -- Women: a global injustice -- Human rights, liberty and democracy -- Climate change -- Renewable energy in Africa -- 9. Britain in Europe -- Europe's place in the world -- Europe's evolution -- Growth not austerity -- Britain in Europe -- The withdrawal fallacy -- Trade -- Foreign direct investment -- British Europeans -- Practical Europeanism -- European reform -- Sometimes less, sometimes more Europe -- 10. Refounding Labour -- Recent trends in Britain -- Changing political culture -- Multiparty government -- Councillors and communities -- Supporters not joiners -- Labour's challenge -- Affiliated trade union members -- Importance of local campaigning -- Community organising -- Party organisation -- New media and new technology -- Less a party, more a movement -- 11. Faster, sustainable growth -- Austerity or bust? -- The prospects for public spending: aspiration and anxiety -- The room for expansion -- Output gap -- Two-year public investment plan for faster sustainable growth -- Housing -- Infrastructure -- Low-carbon/green growth -- The Severn Barrage -- Action on skills -- 12. A fairer, more equal society -- Taxation -- Seven-point programme of tax reform -- Financing students and universities -- Welfare reform -- Ageing society -- Universal, affordable childcare -- 13. A future for Labour -- A future for socialism -- Growth again -- Greater equality our mission -- Overview -- Bold ambitions -- Notes -- Index |
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What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? Did Big Government or Big Banking cause the global financial crisis? Is the answer austerity or investment in growth; untrammelled market forces or regulating for the common good? Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until the global banking crisis. Now Peter Hain, with over 50 years' experience in politics, revisits this classic text and presents a stimulating political prospectus for today. Hain argues that capitalism is now more financially unstable and unfair, productive but prone to paralysis, dynamic but discriminatory. A rousing alternative to the neoliberal, right-wing orthodoxy of our era, Hain's new book should be read by everyone interested in the future of the left |
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Socialism -- Great Britain
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Socialism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
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Socialism
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Socialism.
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Socialdemokrati.
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Great Britain
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Electronic book
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9781447321675 |
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1447321677 |
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