When nothing works
When nothing works
When nothing works
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When nothing works

Luca Calafati

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What caused the UK's cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.
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02-November-2023
288 Pages
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In the face of a cost of living crisis, widespread industrial action and mounting inflation, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK's problems and a new approach to tackling them.

Economic growth and higher wages alone will not fix these problems. Behind the 'cost of living crisis' is a deepening crisis of foundational liveability: not only squeezed residual incomes but also failing public services and decaying social infrastructure. The only way out of the crisis is through a political practice of adaptive reuse which works around the constraints that frustrate mainstream policies. Setting out a new model for the three pillars of liveability, When nothing works challenges the assumptions of left and right in the UK political classes and offers a fresh approach to the economically visible and politically actionable.

'Read this and you won't look at a front page the same way again.' - Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian

'Essential reading for the impending post-neoliberal reinvention of democracy and the state.' - Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck

'A brilliant book making hope realisable, outlining the passion that is needed.' - Danny Dorling, Oxford University

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In the face of a cost of living crisis, widespread industrial action and mounting inflation, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK's problems and a new approach to tackling them.

Economic growth and higher wages alone will not fix these problems. Behind the 'cost of living crisis' is a deepening crisis of foundational liveability: not only squeezed residual incomes but also failing public services and decaying social infrastructure. The only way out of the crisis is through a political practice of adaptive reuse which works around the constraints that frustrate mainstream policies. Setting out a new model for the three pillars of liveability, When nothing works challenges the assumptions of left and right in the UK political classes and offers a fresh approach to the economically visible and politically actionable.

'Read this and you won't look at a front page the same way again.' - Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian

'Essential reading for the impending post-neoliberal reinvention of democracy and the state.' - Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck

'A brilliant book making hope realisable, outlining the passion that is needed.' - Danny Dorling, Oxford University

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