TY - JOUR
AU - Carpenter, Mick
AB - © Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal 2024. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com Invited Book Review When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability Edited by L. Calafati, J. Froud, C. Haslam, S. Johal and K. Williams, Manchester University Press 2023, 291 pp; 978-1-5261-7370-6 Hb £85; 978-1-5261-7371-3 Pb £14.99; 978-1-5261-7369-0 Ebook £14.99 This radical and innovative text challenges the current neoliberal economic growth/productivity orthodoxy, as the principal reason for general policy pessimism and the diminution of hope, and specifically on questions of wages, living standards and public services in the UK, and indeed many other countries. The current cost of living crisis in fact predated COVID-19, but was given a new twist by the rise of energy prices and general inflation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Prime Minister Johnson in June 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic declared that the UK ‘will not go back to the austerity of 10 years ago’ (BBC News 28 June, 2020), as people optimistically looked again to the state for protection and support, ‘building back better’ was hastily abandoned once the virus retreated. In the UK, for example, the election year of 2024 
TI - When nothing works: from cost of living to foundational liveability
JF - Community Development Journal
DO - 10.1093/cdj/bsae020
DA - 2024-05-21
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/when-nothing-works-from-cost-of-living-to-foundational-liveability-dMc8MngeQb
SP - 240
EP - 242
VL - 60
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -