How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality

* Book: A Sharing Economy. How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books. By Stewart Lansley. Policy Press, 2016

URL = https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/a-sharing-economy

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“Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential of Britain’s public assets could pay for a pioneering new social wealth fund. Such a fund would boost economic and social investment, and, by building the social asset base, simultaneously strengthen the public finances.

A powerful new policy tool, such funds would ensure that more of the gains from economic activity are shared by all and not colonised by a powerful few. This is a vital new contribution to the pressing debate on how to reduce inequality and combat austerity.”