News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)

by Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway and Doug Nicholls - £7.99  Verso Books (2023)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781804293843 | ISBN 10: 1804293849

A myth-busting pamphlet that charts a course out of the current cost of living crisis.
 
We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this happening? Sometimes we are told that wages are too high, or that the government has "printed" too much money or that events far away, such as the war in Ukraine, are solely to blame. The plain argument that high prices go together with high profits, falling wages, and weak production is often distorted and hidden by mainstream commentary in the media and elsewhere.
 
This plain-speaking pamphlet tells it straight: the big businesses dominating production and distribution make huge profits out of high inflation, while working people lose out. It sets out factual evidence to illustrate that the source of record profits is the fall in real wages as inflation rises. A large part of the income of working people is being transferred directly into the profits of big business. The pamphlet shows that the deeper roots of the "cost of living crisis" lie in the very low investment and poor productivity growth for many years. The basic steps to resolving the crisis are simple: prices, especially of essentials, must be brought down, and wages, salaries, benefits, and pensions must be increased.

(Price & availability last checked: March 2023)

Order by email

×

The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it) - by Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway and Doug Nicholls

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)

by Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway and Doug Nicholls

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: The Cost of Living Crisis and Austerity,
In categories: Politics & Philosophy, Society, Welfare, Justice & the State, Anti-Capitalism & Global Inequality,