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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

policy experts have cited the essential need to build more housing—thereby making it more affordable for all—to help address homelessness and the overall cost-of-living crisis. The Cicero Institute disagreed. “Permanent supportive housing doesn’t address homelessness,” the Institute wrote on its website.6 “It creates demand for more homelessness and

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words

, who talk our country down, who say the best days are behind us,’ Liz Truss declared in her campaign hustings in August 2022, as a cost of living crisis unfolded across the country with worsening forecasts on the horizons. ‘They are completely wrong.’ This rhetoric does nothing to address the problems facing Britain – as

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much pain and misery as they can – slashing welfare, rolling back social services and refusing pay rises in line with inflation even as a bruising cost of living crisis unfolds – all the better to test, and then celebrate, the British people’s mettle and resolve. The social theorist Stuart Hall saw something similar at

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funeral offered Britain a fairy-tale distraction from the dullness of its domestic challenges: low wages, low growth, rising poverty, surging inflation and a worsening cost of living crisis. But Britain could only look away for so long. By 20 September, the funeral was over, and Truss’s prime ministership properly began. Had Truss

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, 83, 104, 259 Corbyn, Jeremy 35, 59–60, 174, 209, 215–18, 222–4, 230, 231–7, 253, 263, 265 Corn Laws 22–3, 24 ‘cost of living crisis’ 110, 120, 245 Covid-19 pandemic 3, 12, 120, 237, 238–9, 240 ‘cultural front’ 35 ‘culture wars’ 12, 63, 242, 252, 264, 265 Cummings

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023

have workers laid off in droves; billionaires have increased their wealth at a blood-boiling rate, even as they have gouged customers and fueled a cost-of-living crisis. All of this is more than enough to justify a popular democratic revolt, without any embellishment (just as the illegal invasion of Iraq, and the

The London Problem: What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City

by Jack Brown · 14 Jul 2021 · 101pp · 24,949 words

decrease had put Transport for London in a financially difficult spot back in 2018.2 An ongoing shortage of affordable housing was fuelling a growing cost-of-living crisis, making life in the capital less appealing for the highly skilled and mobile, and increasingly impossible for the less well off. There were also substantial

Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

by Oliver Franklin-Wallis · 21 Jun 2023 · 309pp · 121,279 words

people. The number of people in food poverty in the country has soared in the last decade, exacerbated by cuts in government spending and a cost of living crisis.22 FareShare, the country’s largest food donation charity, served 131.9 million meals in 2020. The same challenges are felt elsewhere, too: in the

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century

by Ryan Avent · 20 Sep 2016 · 323pp · 90,868 words

in many economies, momentum quickly returned. Housing costs in places such as London and San Francisco are again touching new highs, contributing to a broad cost-of-living crisis for many workers. There is not much mystery to the surge in housing costs. House prices, like the prices for most things, are a function

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

by Ingrid Robeyns · 16 Jan 2024 · 327pp · 110,234 words

Truss, who served as British prime minister for forty-four days in 2022, proposed trickle-down economics as a way of responding to the escalating cost of living crisis caused by the Covid pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine. She announced a package of measures aiming to lower the tax rates that apply

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

by Chris van Tulleken · 26 Jun 2023 · 448pp · 123,273 words

why? ‘It’s all about price and costs. Those ingredients save money.’ This is important to British consumers who in 2017, even before the current cost-of-living crisis, spent just 8 per cent of their household budget on food, lower than almost anywhere else other than the USA (where people spend 6 per

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In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us

by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee · 10 Mar 2025 · 393pp · 146,371 words

a 10.4 percent increase in 2020, according to the S&P/ Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index.60 Similar dynamics powered a cost-of-living crisis around the world.61 Rising home values redound to the benefit of homeowners but put home ownership farther out of reach for less well

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Reserve Economic Data), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, accessed July 10, 2023, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA. 61. International Monetary Fund, “Countering the Cost-of-Living Crisis,” World Economic Outlook Report, October 2022, https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2022/10 /11/world-economic-outlook-october-2022. 62. Aparna Jayashankar

Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality

by Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell · 23 May 2023

and assets of the already wealthy while the rest are left to struggle with rising inflation.27 Since late 2021, high earners have seen a cost of living crisis and market instability that have increasingly threatened them too. The choice they have to make in the coming years is one between isolating and protecting

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size of the economy continues to grow healthily, the truth is that real wages have mostly flatlined since the year 2000 – even without considering the cost of living crisis that is raging as we write. The tide rose, but not all boats were lifted. One thing that puzzled us was that 12% of those

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recently with high-profile cases of employment rights not being protected, such as the fire and rehire policies of P&O Ferries.31 As the cost of living crisis unfolds, trade unions have seen a recent rise in membership, among women in particular.32 Even Sean, one of the most solid Merchants in our

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he was shown to be in flagrant violation of his own COVID-19 rules), the opening salvos of the Ukraine–Russia war, and a looming cost of living crisis, even the most Conservative 76 Don’t rock the boat among them had few reasons to be cheerful about the state of British politics. Our

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growth in the lowest deciles; and the state of public services. This chapter explores how critical events (Brexit, the pandemic, the Ukraine–Russia war, the cost of living crisis) and the structural crises of our times may affect the top 10%. As much as their situation is more secure than most, they are finding

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110 Business class tickets for a sinking ship paying for their rent, gas, electricity, and food.43 And this was before COVID-19 and the cost of living crisis. The housing market continues to move further out of reach for many young people. The stamp duty holiday introduced in July 2020 to kick-start

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the NHS, public health and social care are crucial for the wellbeing of us all. However, pressures relating to public sector pay, austerity and a cost of living crisis have presented an unprecedented threat to the health and wellbeing of the UK.66 High earners are fearful that waiting times and beleaguered service provision

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lockdowns, he had also taken a consultancy, “cashing in on his experience”. As a result, when 126 Jumping ship, but where to? asked if the cost of living crisis had affected him, he said “I feel quite well-off. There has been significant improvement in my income.” During the lockdowns, better-off families reduced

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and private debt – one of the key drivers of the 2008 crisis – is high. What is more, all of this was before the post-pandemic cost of living crisis. Barrier 5: Consuming is all-consuming17 In modern capitalist societies, our lifestyles are inextricably linked to consumption, the goods and services we acquire and what

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kind of contact there is, the more likely that judgements about people living in different circumstances will be preconceived. Nevertheless, the pandemic and the current cost of living crisis, not to mention the Ukraine– Russia war, have shown more clearly than ever how quickly individuals can get into difficulties through no fault of their

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UK energy firms could make excess profits totalling £170 billion between 2022–24, according to Treasury estimates.76 Meanwhile, millions of households struggle amid the cost of living crisis – or income crisis, as Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski has asked everyone to rename it.77 Taking companies that generate, distribute or supply energy

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strategies. University of Surrey Social Research Update, 33. 203 Uncomfortably Off Baines, J., Hager, S. and Peggs, A. (2022) The sector secretly profiting from the cost of living crisis. Open Democracy. 5 May. www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/uk-energydistribution-networks-nationalise-profit-cost-living Bale, T. (2021) Ploughed under? Labour’s grassroots post

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crimes, and get away with anything. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Byline TV (2022) How to solve the cost of living crisis. 4 September. https://byline.tv/title/consensus-cabinet-howto-solve-the-cost-of-living-crisis Byrne, I. (2022) It’s time to enshrine the right to food. Tribune. 9 February. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022

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/02/right-to-foodhunger-cost-of-living-crisis Carpenter, N. (2018) Austerity’s victims: Living with a learning disability under Cameron and May. Great Britain: Amazon (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform). Carson, R. and

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responsibility 70–1 corporate sector 46, 51, 59, 64, 65–6, 67–8, 71, 88–9, 108, 128, 153 corporation tax 105–6, 113, 180 cost of living crisis 14, 52, 76, 101, 104, 106, 127, 177–8 council tax 110, 180 COVID-19 pandemic 13, 15, 72–3, 103–4, 116, 126, 134

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, 142, 144, 151 furlough and business support schemes 15, 104, 126–7, 128, 140, 151 political impact of 87–8 Coyle, Diane 145 crises cost of living crisis 14, 52, 76, 101, 104, 106, 127, 177–8 of democracy 119–21 global financial crisis, 2008 31, 77–9, 126, 140 cryptocurrencies 143–4

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, 85, 86, 102, 120 liberalism small-l liberalism 96, 98, 182 life expectancy 79, 115, 138 Lindner, Christian 169 living standards 23–4 see also cost of living crisis local government 81–3, 117 local politics 81, 82–3 low-wage work 62, 127 luck 48, 59, 61 luxury consumption, and climate change 114

Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics

by Matt Chorley · 8 Feb 2024 · 254pp · 75,897 words

Kwarteng’s motorcade had just passed the landmark beer house when he learnt that his own brief experiment in free-market economics to solve the cost-of-living crisis was about to come to an end. He found out he was being sacked as chancellor of the exchequer while reading a tweet in the

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words

competing interests of individual capitalists and act on behalf of capital in general. Every recent crisis—from the financial crisis to the pandemic, to the cost-of-living crisis—has involved a key role for the state in solving capital’s collective action problems. And even though capitalists have often wailed about the pain

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this corruption have been felt by working people, who are now being told there is no money left in public coffers to deal with a cost-of-living crisis that is seeing millions pushed into poverty. Yet mainstream commentators lost no time in claiming that the increase in state spending seen over the course

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the rich world. As interest payments on government debt increase, there will be less public money available for poverty reduction, health care, and education. The cost-of-living crisis is being driven by a toxic melding of public and private power. Powerful corporations are taking advantage of shortages to raise prices, before handing the

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the already wealthy and powerful, while claiming to act in the general interest. The political nature of central banking has become even clearer during the cost-of-living crisis. While interest rates were kept low after the financial crisis to protect asset prices, they’re now being raised very quickly to keep down consumer

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call center workers and, 98–99 CARES Act (2020) and, 9–10 corporate beneficiaries of, 9–10, 41–49, 59–60, 141–42, 155–56 cost-of-living crisis, 48, 58, 63–66, 129 Evergrande (China) implosion and, 167–69, 171 fossil-fuel industry and, 64, 141–42 frauds and scams in, 156–57

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seizures from, 186–90, 228, 251 Indonesia Jakarta Method and, 190–92 Non-Aligned Movement and, 190–91, 193 industrial system (Galbraith), 97–98 inflation cost-of-living crisis, 48, 58, 63–66, 129 Ever Given crisis (2021) and, 62–63, 64 oil price spikes and, 62, 63 sellers’ inflation, 64–65 Volcker shock

Vassal State

by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words

/study-consumer-inertia-boosts-subscription-firms-revenues-by-200/. 27 ‘Half a billion pounds spent on subscriptions that rolled over without people realising during the cost-of-living crisis’, Citizens Advice [website] (1 December 2022), http://tinyurl.com/4k8yxpns. 28 ‘Introducing Snapchat+’, Snap [website] (29 June 2022), https://newsroom.snap.com/en-GB/snapchatplus

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle · 15 Apr 2025 · 321pp · 112,477 words

substantial shift in the public philosophy that started to emerge from the aftermath of multiple economic shocks: the 2008 financial crisis, the 2020 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis since 2022, the reemergence of geopolitical tension and conflict. Protests against what is often described as the “neoliberal” era of globalisation and financialisation

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar · 14 Oct 2024 · 175pp · 46,192 words

it was the profiteering that led to record profits,” responded one user. Loblaws has since deleted one of its posts. “Roblaw$” Parody Sweatshirt The wider cost-of-living crisis in Canada accelerated during the pandemic and high-inflation period, and Canadians focused their ire on one seemingly ubiquitous company: Loblaw and its “Loblawpoly.” It

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

by Jenny Kleeman · 13 Mar 2024 · 334pp · 96,342 words

to become good at. I have changed since I began researching the price of life. So have you. You’ve survived a pandemic, endured a cost-of-living crisis, and now you’ve entered the age of the AI revolution. We’re shedding increasingly useable data every moment that we live, providing an exponential

Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

by Ed Conway · 15 Jun 2023 · 515pp · 152,128 words

COVID-19 downturn, suddenly lost momentum. And as oil and gas prices soared, much of the world was plunged into what the media called a ‘cost of living crisis’. Petrol prices shot to unprecedented highs, along with the cost of natural gas in Europe. Inflation – a measure of wider prices, which everyone assumed was

This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words

helps governments build digital tools to interpret all this information. For example, we developed a visualization tool to help the UK government tackle the spiralling cost-of-living crisis, highlighting hotspots across the UK where the combined cost of fuel, food, housing and debt were making whole swathes of the country unaffordable for young

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Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest: Palaces & Castles, Art & Music, Coffeehouses & Beer Gardens

by Jennifer D Walker, Auburn Scallon and Moon Travel Guides · 15 Oct 2024 · 806pp · 221,571 words

booming area of the economy, but the city suffered considerably due to lockdowns and border closures. Although the sector is bouncing back, inflation and the cost of living crisis have hit Hungary’s economy hard. People and Culture The first rule of Central Europe is you do not confuse it with Eastern Europe. Vienna