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Transfer state : the idea of a guaranteed income and the politics of redistribution in modern Britain / Peter Sloman.
By: Sloman, Peter [author.]
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: xiv, 302 pages : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198813262Subject(s): Basic income -- Great Britain | Income distribution -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Social policy | Great Britain -- Economic policyDDC classification: 362.582
Contents:
I. The politics of redistribution -- Redistributive market liberalism and its critics -- II. In search of a guaranteed income -- Social dividends and social contracts, 1918-1955 -- Negative income tax comes to Britain, 1955-1970 -- 'The pragmatist's solution to poverty' : the Heath government's tax credit scheme, 1970-1974 -- III. Cash transfers in post-industrial Britain -- Redistribution in a cold climate : the politics of guaranteed income in the late 1970s and 1980s -- New Labour's tax credits, 1997-2010 -- A crisis of the transfer state? Distributional politics since the 2008 financial crisis -- The return of universal basic income -- IV. Conclusion -- What kind of transfer state?
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 362.582 SLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018909 |
I. The politics of redistribution -- Redistributive market liberalism and its critics -- II. In search of a guaranteed income -- Social dividends and social contracts, 1918-1955 -- Negative income tax comes to Britain, 1955-1970 -- 'The pragmatist's solution to poverty' : the Heath government's tax credit scheme, 1970-1974 -- III. Cash transfers in post-industrial Britain -- Redistribution in a cold climate : the politics of guaranteed income in the late 1970s and 1980s -- New Labour's tax credits, 1997-2010 -- A crisis of the transfer state? Distributional politics since the 2008 financial crisis -- The return of universal basic income -- IV. Conclusion -- What kind of transfer state?