Reindustrialise Britain

A Strategy for Wealth Creation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7475-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Britain is broken: its economy hollowed out, unbalanced, and unable to provide good livelihoods for millions. We import too much, make too little, and keep wages low. Neoliberalism has failed.

This book puts forward a concrete, costed programme for real economic renewal: rebuilding the foundations of industry, expanding manufacturing, and lifting productivity through skilled work, investment and domestic capacity. It outlines a practical route to generating real wealth rather than recycling financial gains. To deliver it requires sovereignty to plan and invest, and democratic power to mobilise the necessary workers, skills and institutions.

This bold intervention is a blueprint for economic revival. Anyone who wishes to be part of the democratic movement that is needed to make this happen should read this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lapavitsas, Costas

Elliott, Larry

Nicholls, Doug

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I DAMAGED GOODS – A DIAGNOSIS
Chapter 1 Neoliberal disaster
Chapter 2 The world in the slow lane
Chapter 3 Britain's lopsided economy
Chapter 4 The state were in
Chapter 5 Britain's external dependence
Chapter 6 Hard labour
Chapter 7 A Green Transition and the challenge of capital controls

PART II – A STRATEGY FOR WEALTH CREATION – WHAT TO DO
Chapter 8 Six steps for wealth creation
Chapter 9 Labour, nationalisation, and investment
Chapter 10 Finance, trade, and capital flows
Chapter 11 Can we afford it?

PART III MAKING IT HAPPEN – WHO AND HOW TO DO IT
Chapter 12 Rebuilding union power
Chapter 13 Building a coalition for transformation
Chapter 14 National sovereignty and democracy

Über Autor(innen)

Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Larry Elliott was Economics Editor of the Guardian newspaper from 1996 to 2024.

Doug Nicholls was General Secretary of the Community and Youth Workers' Union 1987–2011, and General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions 2012–2023.