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Luke Hildyard
Publisher: Pluto Books
Year: 2024
Format: Paperback
Size: 160 pages
ISBN: 9780745348544
A call for an end to obscene wealth
The story is all too familiar. The obscene wealth of the super-rich is locked away while millions are reduced to poverty. The British economy becomes more farcical by the day, and no major political party is stepping forward to suggest redistribution.
The 1% have pulled the wool over our eyes until now. In Enough, Luke Hildyard shows how the super-rich are far from hard-working, innovative, and philanthropic but are, in fact, the people behind the biggest scam today - the scam that is keeping us poor.
Tax and redistribution are not enough. Hildyard shows that it is reasonable to demand a change to the structure of our economy and culture to address inequality and raise living standards for the majority. It has gone too far - and this is the start of a new conversation to end it.
"A pragmatic focus on how much better and fairer our economy would be if fewer resources were controlled by the super-rich."Â Financial Times
"This, right now, with no excuses, no delays, no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning."Â Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford
"A concise, readable and analytically sharp book that makes an incontrovertible case for a profound redistribution of wealth; and a rousing call to arms to take on the super-rich and build an economy that works for everyone." Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism
"Rousing … with flashes of wit." The Economist
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