The Stakeholding Society: Writings on Politics and EconomicsISBN: 978-0-7456-2078-7
Hardcover
296 pages
January 1999, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Introduction.
Part I: Enlivening the Dismal Science: The Limits to Economic Orthodoxy:.
New Economics Hits at Market Orthodoxy.
Monetarist Mantra has Lost its Magic.
An End to the Rule of Fish Market Economics.
Equality is the Casualty of an Unhealthy Market.
Priceless Assets Amount to Folly.
Wealth or Happiness may be in Store.
Part II: The Keynesian Revival: New Arguments for Growth and Employment:.
Back by Popular Demand.
Who's Whistling the Best Tunes Now?.
Follow Spitfire, Not Concorde.
Trade with a Tangible Return to Well-Being.
Part III: London Babylon: The City, Finance and the British Economy:.
Money before Machines.
Why Rover was Driven out of UK Hands.
A City without Controls has Resulted in a Capital Market out of Control.
Jobs and Growth Mean Regulation.
The Sad Story of British Biotech.
Part IV: Ownership Matters: Short-Termism, Stakeholding and Corporate Governance:.
Raising the Stakes.
Time for Labour to Put some Spine into its Stakeholding Idea.
Stake that Claim.
Only Working Together will Save the Economy.
Tony and the Tories: This is what we Mean.
Healing Community Requires Reform rather than Rhetoric.
Darkness at the Heart of Privatization.
Part V: Taming Mammon: The Growth and Regulation of the Global Economy:.
Reviving Bretton Woods. Crisis in Mexico should Puncture the Conservatives' Complacency.
Job Worries Contain Message of Import. Myth that Sets the World to Right.
Restrain these Corporate Godzillas.
Part VI: European Dilemmas: From ERM to EMU:.
The Chancellor, the Banker, and Deaf Ears in Bath.
Black Wednesday Massacre.
Nothing but the Actualité?.
Winds over the West.
The Cost of Going it Alone in Europe.
Imperial Echo Defies Logic.
X Marks the Spot for Start of Euro Race.
Hot Money Goes Euro.
Part VII: The Political Economy of Penury: Taxation and Public Spending in the UK:.
Taxing Question should be a Matter or More, not Less.
A Tax that Needs to Go Up, not Down.
We All Lose out in the Tories' Lottery Game.
Cashing in on the North Sea Bubble.
Millennium Fiasco that is a Monument to Failure.
Part VIII: An Age of Insecurity?.
Polarization, Poverty and the Fraying of our Social Fabric.
High-Risk Strategy.
What Comes after the Gold Rush.
Why the Poor Remain Silent.
Why a Minimum Wage Offers Maximum Returns for All.
Investing in Social Capital can Help Counter the Spate of Evil.
Priceless Gifts within Everybody's Reach.
Happiness that Money Truly Cannot Buy.
Part IX: Lessons from Elsewhere: Alternative Models of Capitalism:.
Tory Fantasy of Far Eastern Promise.
Britain Falls Short of the Mark.
Germany Defies Prophets of Doom.
Shock that Threatens Downtown America.
Age of Anxiety as Communism Collapses.
That's the Thing about Paper Tigers: They Burn.
Sun, Sea, Wine and Loneliness Down Under.
Part X: The State We're In: Constitutional Struggles and Economic Revival:.
Royal Reform Key to Real Recovery.
Moment of Truth for the Rentier State.
Time to Sever the Thin Blue Line.
A Mad Way to Run a Country.
Snow White Ideology and the 30 Million Dwarfs.
It is Broke, and It Needs Fixing.
A Princess, a Funeral and a Nation's Sadness.
Part XI: The Times they are Changing? New Labour's First Year:.
Break the Locks on Labour's War Chest.
Labour must Stop Ducking the Issue of Inequality.
Scotland has to Seize the Day - for All Our Sakes.
Blair is Forcing us to Make the Hardest Choice.
Blair's Big Tent is now Blowing in the Wind.
Didn't he Do Well? Well ... Did he?.
Afterword.
Index.