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Private Island
- Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
Engelsk
Bogcover for Private Island af James Meek, 9781784782061
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781784782061
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1784782068
Udg. Dato:
6 apr 2015
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 12,8 x 2,1
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
6 apr 2015
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Private Island

- Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
Engelsk
Paperback 2015
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<i>"The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us."</i> <br><br>In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – have been sold to remote, unaccountable private owners, often from overseas. In a series of brilliant portraits the award-winning novelist and journalist James Meek shows how Britain’s common wealth became private, and the impact it has had on us all: from the growing shortage of housing to spiralling energy bills.<br><br> Meek explores the human stories behind the incremental privatization of the nation over the last three decades. He shows how, as our national assets are sold, ordinary citizens are handed over to private tax-gatherers, and the greatest burden of taxes shifts to the poorest. In the end, it is not only public enterprises that have become private property, but we ourselves.<br><br> Urgent, powerfully written and deeply moving, this is a passionate anatomy of the state of the nation: of what we have lost and what losing it cost us – the rent we must pay to exist on this private island.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781784782061
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1784782068
Udg. Dato:
6 apr 2015
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 12,8 x 2,1
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
6 apr 2015
Forfatter(e):
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