越富越穷：英国如何让少数人富裕，让穷人失望。200年的历史

《越富越穷》描绘了富人和穷人的过山车历史，以及连接财富和贫困的机制。这本具有里程碑意义的书展示了200年来，英国最有权势的精英是如何以不断加剧的不平等、大规模贫困和削弱的社会韧性为代价来丰富自己的。斯图尔特·兰斯利（Stewart Lansley）揭示了英国的“采掘式资本主义”模式——一小部分精英在经济蛋糕上获得了过多的份额——是如何创造了一个长达两个世纪的“高度不平等、高度贫困”循环的，这个循环在第二次世界大战后仅短暂中断。他问道，为什么富人和穷人的评判标准截然不同？为什么社会进步被如此狭隘地分享？随着越来越多的人呼吁建立一个更公平的新冠肺炎后社会，需要做些什么来打破英国毁灭性的贫困/不平等循环？
The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History
The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience. Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain’s model of ‘extractive capitalism’ – with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic cake – has created a two-century-long ‘high-inequality, high-poverty’ cycle, one broken for only a brief period after the Second World War. Why, he asks, are rich and poor citizens judged by very different standards? Why has social progress been so narrowly shared? With growing calls for a fairer post-COVID-19 society, what needs to be done to break Britain’s destructive poverty/inequality cycle?

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