Stewart Lansley
Biographic Data
| ID | 368966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Lansley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart |
| FAMILY NAME | Lansley |
| SIGNATURE | LANSLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9352-9779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wealth Accumulation
This article examines the social and economic impact of the greatly vaunted process of personal wealth accumulation. Recent decades have seen a significant surge in the level of privately owned wealth in the UK, other rich nations and globally. Yet this wealth boom is not associated with an historic boost in innovation and business performance or a faster rate of growth. The article examines the case for distinguishing between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ we…
Changing circumstances and new basic premises
Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways’ by Donald Hirsch 1" published on Feb 2023 by Policy Press
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible
Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) have claimed that it would be either unaffordable or inadequate. This discussion paper tests this claim by examining the distributional impacts of three UBI schemes broadly designed to provide pathways to attainment of the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). We use microsimulation of data from the Family Resources Survey to outline the static distributional impacts and costs of the schemes. Our key finding is th…
Rethinking ‘Crowding Out’ and the Return of ‘Private Affluence and Public Squalor’
This article traces the history of ‘crowding out’, and its use as a justification for austerity and state deflation from its origins in the 1920s to its latest post‐2010 incarnation. It examines why governments have kept turning to austerity and continue to justify it on the grounds that public sector activity crowds out more productive private activity, despite the accumulated evidence that this traditional pro‐market formulation has failed to d…
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades
It’s Basic Income
It's Basic Income
How Social Wealth Funds Could Help Tackle Inequality
This article examines the potential to tackle the roots of inequality by the introduction of one or more social wealth funds. Such funds would aim to capture some of the financial gains from the private ownership of capital—a principal driver of inequality—and use the proceeds for wider community benefit, such as investment in social infrastructure. In recent decades a number of countries have introduced a variant on such funds, mostly taking the…
Britain's Wages Crisis—Is ‘Predistribution’ or ‘Redistribution’ the Way Forward
Is ‘predistribution’ as championed by Ed Miliband, or old fashioned ‘redistribution’ as adopted, if stealthily, by Labour from 1997, the best way to create greater equality? Some critics have argued that a strategy of predistribution—aimed at closing the income gap before the application of taxes and benefits—would not work and that it will be necessary to rely mainly on redistribution. This article examines the potential impact of weak and more …
Inequality, the Crash and the Ongoing Crisis
The rise in inequality across many rich nations, but especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, was meant to lead to a bigger economic pie from which all would benefit. In fact, the increased concentration of income over the last three decades has led to more fragile and unstable economies making it a key cause of the 2008 Crash and today's lack of recovery. The evidence of the last 100 years is that models of capitalism that fail to…
Capitalism works only when rewards are seen to be shared
After the Gold Rush
Today Britain, like most Western countries, is richer than ever. More people have more things. But at the same time the divisions between rich and poor, between haves and have-nots, are so deep and painful that society itself is in real danger of coming apart. In this study the Henley Centre examines the shift from the welfare capitalism of the 1980s to our present state of economic and political confusion, illuminating trends with data from its …
Councils in Conflict
This book is a detailed examination of the rise of the Left in local councils, the subsequent battles with Mrs Thatcher's government and the lessons gained from this experience.
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible
Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) have claimed that it would be either unaffordable or inadequate. This discussion paper tests this claim by examining the distributional impacts of three UBI schemes broadly designed to provide pathways to attainment of the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). We use microsimulation of data from the Family Resources Survey to outline the static distributional impacts and costs of the schemes. Our key finding is th…
Britain's Wages Crisis—Is ‘Predistribution’ or ‘Redistribution’ the Way Forward
Is ‘predistribution’ as championed by Ed Miliband, or old fashioned ‘redistribution’ as adopted, if stealthily, by Labour from 1997, the best way to create greater equality? Some critics have argued that a strategy of predistribution—aimed at closing the income gap before the application of taxes and benefits—would not work and that it will be necessary to rely mainly on redistribution. This article examines the potential impact of weak and more …
Inequality, the Crash and the Ongoing Crisis
The rise in inequality across many rich nations, but especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, was meant to lead to a bigger economic pie from which all would benefit. In fact, the increased concentration of income over the last three decades has led to more fragile and unstable economies making it a key cause of the 2008 Crash and today's lack of recovery. The evidence of the last 100 years is that models of capitalism that fail to…
Councils in Conflict
This book is a detailed examination of the rise of the Left in local councils, the subsequent battles with Mrs Thatcher's government and the lessons gained from this experience.
After the Gold Rush
Today Britain, like most Western countries, is richer than ever. More people have more things. But at the same time the divisions between rich and poor, between haves and have-nots, are so deep and painful that society itself is in real danger of coming apart. In this study the Henley Centre examines the shift from the welfare capitalism of the 1980s to our present state of economic and political confusion, illuminating trends with data from its …
Inequality, the Crash and the Ongoing Crisis
The rise in inequality across many rich nations, but especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, was meant to lead to a bigger economic pie from which all would benefit. In fact, the increased concentration of income over the last three decades has led to more fragile and unstable economies making it a key cause of the 2008 Crash and today's lack of recovery. The evidence of the last 100 years is that models of capitalism that fail to…
Capitalism works only when rewards are seen to be shared
Britain's Wages Crisis—Is ‘Predistribution’ or ‘Redistribution’ the Way Forward
Is ‘predistribution’ as championed by Ed Miliband, or old fashioned ‘redistribution’ as adopted, if stealthily, by Labour from 1997, the best way to create greater equality? Some critics have argued that a strategy of predistribution—aimed at closing the income gap before the application of taxes and benefits—would not work and that it will be necessary to rely mainly on redistribution. This article examines the potential impact of weak and more …
How Social Wealth Funds Could Help Tackle Inequality
This article examines the potential to tackle the roots of inequality by the introduction of one or more social wealth funds. Such funds would aim to capture some of the financial gains from the private ownership of capital—a principal driver of inequality—and use the proceeds for wider community benefit, such as investment in social infrastructure. In recent decades a number of countries have introduced a variant on such funds, mostly taking the…
It’s Basic Income
It's Basic Income
Just how big a role has ‘neoliberalism’ played in the upheavals of the last four decades
Changing circumstances and new basic premises
Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways’ by Donald Hirsch 1" published on Feb 2023 by Policy Press
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible
Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) have claimed that it would be either unaffordable or inadequate. This discussion paper tests this claim by examining the distributional impacts of three UBI schemes broadly designed to provide pathways to attainment of the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). We use microsimulation of data from the Family Resources Survey to outline the static distributional impacts and costs of the schemes. Our key finding is th…
Rethinking ‘Crowding Out’ and the Return of ‘Private Affluence and Public Squalor’
This article traces the history of ‘crowding out’, and its use as a justification for austerity and state deflation from its origins in the 1920s to its latest post‐2010 incarnation. It examines why governments have kept turning to austerity and continue to justify it on the grounds that public sector activity crowds out more productive private activity, despite the accumulated evidence that this traditional pro‐market formulation has failed to d…
Wealth Accumulation
This article examines the social and economic impact of the greatly vaunted process of personal wealth accumulation. Recent decades have seen a significant surge in the level of privately owned wealth in the UK, other rich nations and globally. Yet this wealth boom is not associated with an historic boost in innovation and business performance or a faster rate of growth. The article examines the case for distinguishing between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ we…
Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Inequality (4 works)