The inequality delusion and other scapegoats for populism -- The fairness instinct -- Economic unfairness and the rise of populism -- The twin virtues of equal opportunity and fair unequal outcomes -- Constraints and solutions to economic fairness -- Conclusion. Scripting a path forward.

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...

"This book provides the first book-length study of the political and economic ideas of the British left's Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s and early 1980s. Discussing the AES's approaches to capitalism, the nation state and the working class, it argues that existing academic accounts...