Book Launch: When Nothing Works: From cost of living to foundational liveability

CLaSP and Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG) at the School of Business and Management, QMUL jointly invite you to the book launch of When Nothing Works.

In 2023, the United Kingdom has unaffordable essentials, failing public services, rising inflation, and industrial unrest. When Nothing Works is both our national dilemma and the title of this new book which breaks with the assumptions of the left and the right and seeks to change what is economically visible and politically actionable.

When Nothing Works diagnoses chronic foundational failure when all the pillars of household liveability are failing as residual income is squeezed, services collapse, and social infrastructure decays. It proposes a political practice of 'adaptive reuse' that works around the constraints that frustrate mainstream policies of growth and higher wages.

At this event, chaired by Andrew Pendleton, Professor Julie Froud (University of Manchester and one of the authors of When Nothing Works), will outline the book's key arguments, before a panel discussion.

Speakers:

• Grace Blakeley (Tribune)

• Aditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian)

• Professor David Edgerton (KCL)

The event will be followed by a short drinks reception to which all attendees are welcome. Discounted copies of the book will be sold after the event.