Events

25/03/10 10:00

Public Policy and Political Islam

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the German Embassy, IPPR and the International Centre for the Study...

05/02/10 10:00

The Good Society - a better way to work, a better way to live

5-6 February 2010, Newcastle Over 90 delegates attended a groundbreaking conference (the first of...

22/01/10 10:00

Building the Good Society – A European Perspective

20th-22nd January 2010, London The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Compass invited to the...

Publications

NEW - HOW SOARING INEQUALITY CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRASH

Stewart Lansley

The economic meltdown has been widely attributed to a combination of global imbalances, excessive banking leveraging, reckless financial risk-taking and excessive personal debt. But Stewart Lansley argues in his article these headline explanations are only part of the story. The immediate triggers of the current crisis have their roots in economic, political and social upheavals of the last thirty years. Widening inequality became a key ingredient in the growing fragility of the British (and US) economy and played a central role in the build-up to the credit crunch. 

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Following the great success of the Good Society debate, which brought together an unprecedented number of academics, politicians and activists to discuss the future of European social democracy, the organisers (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Social Europe Journal, Compass and Soundings Journal) have decided to continue this vital discourse.

Building on the results of the first Good Society debate, we will discuss the future priorities of social democracy in more detail. Organised in four thematic streams (Democracy, Sustainability, Equality and Organising) that will run until June, we will publish three articles per week in which authors set out their vision for the future.

Please visit the Social Europe journal website to follow the Good Society debate.

You can download a summary of the first online debate here.