In Place of Austerity: reconstructing the economy, state and public services

In Place of Austerity uncovers the realities of commissioning, localism, 'big society' empowerment fraud, and the sytematic undermining of public services and the welfare state. It perceptively exposes the scale of disempowerment, dispossession and disinvestment and analyses the dominant rationale, which continues to underpin the financialisation and personalisation of public services, accelerating marketisation and privatisation on an unprecedented scale.

It sets out a framework for policies that reconstruct the economy, invest in local economies, create jobs and rebuild public infrastructure. In doing so, it charts a new role for the state and offers a radical new public service management.