Efnisyfirlit

• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Images
• Preface
• Introduction
  • What This Book Is
  • Why Read This Book?
  • Quick Guide to the Book
• Part I COVID-19 Was Always a Matter of ‘When’ Not ‘If’
  • 1 The Extraordinary History of Pandemic Control
    • An Ever-Present Threat
    • The Myth of Progress
    • How Pandemics Spread
    • Pandemics and the Role of the State: From Divine to Human Responsibility
    • A Plague on All Our Houses: Learning to Control Pandemics
  • 2 Pandemics Are Not Random ‘Black Swans’
    • We Were Expecting a Pandemic, So Why Was the UK So Unprepared?
    • Your Money or Your Life
    • Light at the End of the Tunnel
• Part II Why COVID-19 Was a Perfect Storm
  • 3 The Fragility Of The Neoliberal State
    • The Neoliberal Project
    • The Capture of Democracy
    • How COVID-19 Was Able to Wreak Havoc
      • A ‘Just in Time’ Health Service
      • A ‘Cinderella’ Social Care Service
    • A Dysfunctional State
  • 4 Inequality Saps Resilience
    • Inequality and the Laissez-Faire State
    • ‘This Is Not an Easy Life Any More, Chum’
    • Are We Bothered?
    • It’s the Economy, Stupid
    • The ‘Burning Injustices’
  • 5 The Pandemic Onslaught
    • Those Who Lived and Those Who Died
    • The Tattered Safety Net
    • The COVID Generation
    • Where’s Next?
    • Looking to the Future
• Part III How COVID-19 Challenges Us To Change
  • 6 ‘Too Big To Fail?’ We Need a Payback This Time
    • Lessons from the 2007–8 Financial Crash
    • What Does All This Have to Do with the 2020 Pandemic?
    • A First Look at the Winners and Losers
    • Securing the Pandemic Payback: How Are Things Looking This Time?
    • Is the Old Order Beginning to Crack?
  • 7 No Time for Austerity Now
    • So We Found the Magic Money Tree
    • When Austerity Was in Vogue
    • Let’s Just Put It on the Tab
    • Storm Clouds Ahead?
  • 8 Who Has the Deepest Pockets?
    • A Better Future and a Proactive State
    • Will We Find the Pot of Gold?
  • 9 Rethinking Welfare
    • Is It Time for a No-Strings Attached Universal Basic Income?
    • ‘Dignity and Security’
    • Universal Services
    • Who Cares?
    • What of Later Life?
• Part IV After the Virus: Who Do We Want to Be?
  • 10 Casting Aside the Neoliberal State
    • Homo Economicus and the Myth of Rationality
    • History and Morality
  • 11 The Birth of a Collectivist Individualism
    • How Elizabeth I Gave Us the World’s First Welfare State
    • The Poor Laws and Local Communities
    • ‘Crowding-in Charity’: The Charitable Uses Act
    • The Poor Laws and Economic Growth
    • The Turn Away from Collectivist Individualism after 1834
    • The Boer War and the ‘New Liberal’ Reforms
    • The ‘Golden Age’: 1945–73
    • Wealth, Redistribution and Progressive Taxation
    • What Lessons Can We Take from History?
  • 12 A NURTURING AND EMPOWERING STATE
    • What Does It Mean to Have a Nurturing and Empowering State?
    • Freedom and the State
    • Building Collective Commitment
    • The Case for Fair and Progressive Contributions
    • Democratic Participation and Devolved Power
    • The Nurturing State and Our Natural Environment
  • 13 Seven Pillars of Empowerment
    • 1. A Nurturing State: Respect and Inclusive Support for All
    • 2. Ethical Capitalism: Working with Business to Redefine Our Values
    • 3. Fair Contributions: Full Participation by the Prosperous
    • 4. Open Public Discourse: Enabling All Voices to Have an Equal Hearing
    • 5. Measuring What We Value: Signalling the Changes We Need
    • 6. A Sustainable Future: Responsible Stewardship of Our Planet’s Resources
    • 7. Participatory Politics: Reviving Democracy and Civic Engagement
  • 14 Greater Even Than a Pandemic
    • Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• References
• Index

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