Sept. 13, 2023
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State. Talking with author, Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford University
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40 years of neoliberal social policy reforms has made the UK more unequal and key indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, pay distribution among others are bearing out how the social progress of the 1950s and 1960s has been eroded.
Shattered Nation, written by Oxford Professor Danny Dorling, demonstrates how the United Kingdom has been fundamentally damaged by 40 years of neoliberal policies of successive Conservative and Labour governments. Inequality is on the rise while life expectancy is declining and infant mortality is on the upswing. What has caused the reversal in social progress in the UK and how can it be turned around ?
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