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• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Images
• Preface
• Introduction
• What This Book Is
• Why Read This Book?
• Quick Guide to the Book
• Part I COVID-19 Was Always a Matter of ‘When’ Not ‘If’
• 1 The Extraordinary History of Pandemic Control
• An Ever-Present Threat
• The Myth of Progress
• How Pandemics Spread
• Pandemics and the Role of the State: From Divine to Human Responsibility
• A Plague on All Our Houses: Learning to Control Pandemics
• 2 Pandemics Are Not Random ‘Black Swans’
• We Were Expecting a Pandemic, So Why Was the UK So Unprepared?
• Your Money or Your Life
• Light at the End of the Tunnel
• Part II Why COVID-19 Was a Perfect Storm
• 3 The Fragility Of The Neoliberal State
• The Neoliberal Project
• The Capture of Democracy
• How COVID-19 Was Able to Wreak Havoc
• A ‘Just in Time’ Health Service
• A ‘Cinderella’ Social Care Service
• A Dysfunctional State
• 4 Inequality Saps Resilience
• Inequality and the Laissez-Faire State
• ‘This Is Not an Easy Life Any More, Chum’
• Are We Bothered?
• It’s the Economy, Stupid
• The ‘Burning Injustices’
• 5 The Pandemic Onslaught
• Those Who Lived and Those Who Died
• The Tattered Safety Net
• The COVID Generation
• Where’s Next?
• Looking to the Future
• Part III How COVID-19 Challenges Us To Change
• 6 ‘Too Big To Fail?’ We Need a Payback This Time
• Lessons from the 2007–8 Financial Crash
• What Does All This Have to Do with the 2020 Pandemic?
• A First Look at the Winners and Losers
• Securing the Pandemic Payback: How Are Things Looking This Time?
• Is the Old Order Beginning to Crack?
• 7 No Time for Austerity Now
• So We Found the Magic Money Tree
• When Austerity Was in Vogue
• Let’s Just Put It on the Tab
• Storm Clouds Ahead?
• 8 Who Has the Deepest Pockets?
• A Better Future and a Proactive State
• Will We Find the Pot of Gold?
• 9 Rethinking Welfare
• Is It Time for a No-Strings Attached Universal Basic Income?
• ‘Dignity and Security’
• Universal Services
• Who Cares?
• What of Later Life?
• Part IV After the Virus: Who Do We Want to Be?
• 10 Casting Aside the Neoliberal State
• Homo Economicus and the Myth of Rationality
• History and Morality
• 11 The Birth of a Collectivist Individualism
• How Elizabeth I Gave Us the World’s First Welfare State
• The Poor Laws and Local Communities
• ‘Crowding-in Charity’: The Charitable Uses Act
• The Poor Laws and Economic Growth
• The Turn Away from Collectivist Individualism after 1834
• The Boer War and the ‘New Liberal’ Reforms
• The ‘Golden Age’: 1945–73
• Wealth, Redistribution and Progressive Taxation
• What Lessons Can We Take from History?
• 12 A NURTURING AND EMPOWERING STATE
• What Does It Mean to Have a Nurturing and Empowering State?
• Freedom and the State
• Building Collective Commitment
• The Case for Fair and Progressive Contributions
• Democratic Participation and Devolved Power
• The Nurturing State and Our Natural Environment
• 13 Seven Pillars of Empowerment
• 1. A Nurturing State: Respect and Inclusive Support for All
• 2. Ethical Capitalism: Working with Business to Redefine Our Values
• 3. Fair Contributions: Full Participation by the Prosperous
• 4. Open Public Discourse: Enabling All Voices to Have an Equal Hearing
• 5. Measuring What We Value: Signalling the Changes We Need
• 6. A Sustainable Future: Responsible Stewardship of Our Planet’s Resources
• 7. Participatory Politics: Reviving Democracy and Civic Engagement
• 14 Greater Even Than a Pandemic
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• References
• Index