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“... to property ownership, thus creating a cross-class electoral coalition of homeowners. As Melinda Cooper says in her new book, these tax provisions are ‘functionally equivalent to traditional public spending’. They are ‘tax expenditures’ – state subsidies effectively, not for recipients of the social wage but for those who have ...”

“... of injustice for Marx), it hasn’t given adequate attention to the family. In her new book, Melinda Cooper argues that the family has been pivotal in the reform of capitalism since the early 1970s, but that this fact has been disguised by the slipperiness of conservative rhetoric. The assumption that ‘neoliberalism’, with its basis in an ...”

“... but principally among the senior managerial class, also dominated by the over-fifties.Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings, political economists at the University of Sydney (the third least affordable city in the world), have developed a new model of class based on housing tenure and relationship to assets. They identify five different ...”