{"product_id":"9781526173713","title":"When nothing works","description":"Author: Luca Calafati\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526173713\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 288 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the face of a cost of living crisis, widespread industrial action and mounting inflation, this book offers an incisive analysis of the UK's problems and a new approach to tackling them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEconomic growth and higher wages alone will not fix these problems. Behind the 'cost of living crisis' is a deepening crisis of foundational liveability: not only squeezed residual incomes but also failing public services and decaying social infrastructure. The only way out of the crisis is through a political practice of adaptive reuse which works around the constraints that frustrate mainstream policies. Setting out a new model for the three pillars of liveability, \u003ci\u003eWhen nothing works\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the assumptions of left and right in the UK political classes and offers a fresh approach to the economically visible and politically actionable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Read this and you won\u0026amp;#x27;t look at a front page the same way again.\u0026amp;#x27; - Aditya Chakrabortty, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Essential reading for the impending post-neoliberal reinvention of democracy and the state.\u0026amp;#x27; - Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;A brilliant book making hope realisable, outlining the passion that is needed.\u0026amp;#x27; - Danny Dorling, Oxford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920551657630,"sku":"ING-9781526173713","price":33.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526173713.jpg?v=1782823626","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526173713","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}