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Amid urgent debates around the function of welfare in the post-industrial 21st Century, and how we pay for it, David Byrne and Sally Ruane deploy the concepts and analytical tools of Marxist political economy to better understand recent developments, and the possibilities they present for social change.

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Fiscal crisis, class...and taxation. This very welcome book provides a clear analysis of the class-based nature of tax systems in post-industrial capitalism. Professor Nick Ellison, University of York This is a timely revisit to O'Connor's seminal analysis of the welfare state in a capitalist system. David Byrne and Sally Ruane make an important argument that there is a better alternative to the financial system that is currently destroying social cohesion and feeding rising inequality. Taxation is part of the solution, not the problem. Philip Haynes, Professor of Public Policy, University of Brighton

Fiscal crisis, class...and taxation. This very welcome book provides a clear analysis of the class-based nature of tax systems in post-industrial capitalism. Professor Nick Ellison, University of York

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David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. His work explores the consequences of the post-industrial transition and the implications of the complexity frame of reference for understanding the social world. Sally Ruane works in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester, and is Deputy Director of the Health Policy Research Unit. Her research interests lie in health service reform, forms of NHS privatisation and taxation.

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