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What´s Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It
Bill Jordan
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Paperback. This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. Series: Polity What's Wrong Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 342.
This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. In seeking to manage social relationships through incentives for individual gain, market-like menus of choices and business-style sets of interlocking contracts, the model adopted by the governments of the UK and USA has subverted the basis for social policy in mutuality and membership.
This book argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. In seeking to manage social relationships through incentives for individual gain, market-like menus of choices and business-style sets of interlocking contracts, the model adopted by the governments of the UK and USA has subverted the basis for social policy in mutuality and membership.
This has been demonstrated by growing inequalities, by failures and scandals in the social services, by the flat-lining of measured well-being (even during the boom years), by increases in a wide ... Read more
Bill Jordan's up-to-date, passionate and engaging argument forges convincing links between a wide range of the troubling phenomena in the public life of our times.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Polity What's Wrong Series
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745647418
SKU
V9780745647418
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About Bill Jordan
Bill Jordan is Professor of social Policy, School of Applied Psychosocial Studies at the University of Plymouth.
Reviews for What´s Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It
"Passionately written, engaging and topical." LSE Politics Blog “A proactive, activist and passionate proposal fighting for restoring ‘faith in a politics of social justice” International Sociology Reviews "This trenchant critique shows how orthodox social policy, grounded in the neo-liberal economic model, is ill-designed to ... Read more