Stewart Lansley – The Progressive Economy Forum

Visiting fellow at the University of Bristol.

Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, a Research Associate at the Compass think-tank and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

He has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality and is the author of The Richer, the Poorer, How Britain enriched the few and failed the poor, a 200-year history (Bristol University Press), A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline Britain, The Rise of Mass Poverty (with Joanna Mack, 2015) and The Cost of Inequality (2011).

Stewart Lansley – Why luxury capitalism is the enemy of social progress

Stewart Lansley December 9, 2021

The ‘great widening’ of the last four decades – with the gains from growth increasingly colonised by the few – has had severe economic and social consequences. Intense concentrations of wealth have brought the return of ‘luxury capitalism’, with – as in the nineteenth century – the pattern of economic activity skewed by an over-rich and over-powered class, and resources deflected to meeting their demands.