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Pensions Imperilled - The Political Economy of Private Pensions Provision in the UK (Hardcover)
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Pensions Imperilled - The Political Economy of Private Pensions Provision in the UK (Hardcover)
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Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not
the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.
While population ageing has affected traditional pensions practice,
the imperilment of UK pensions is due in fact to the peculiar way
policy-makers have responded to wider social and economic change.
Pensions are a mechanism for managing failed futures, yet this
function is being impeded by the individualization of provision.
This book offers a political economy perspective on the development
of private pensions, focusing specifically on how policy elites
have sought to respond to perceived crises of demographic change,
under-saving, and fund deficits, and in doing so have absorbed
imperatives to subject individuals to a market-led regime under the
influence of neoliberal ideology. This terrain is explored through
chapters on the historical and comparative context of UK pensions
provision, the demise of collectivist provision, the rise of
pensions individualization and the state's role as facilitator and
regulator in this regard, and the financial and economic context in
which pensions provision operates. By placing the UK system in a
comparative context of pensions reform agendas across the world,
this book offers an original understanding of the unique
temporality and materiality of pensions provision as a set of
mechanisms for coping with generational change and forecast
failures in capitalist economies. It also presents a nuanced
account of the extent to which the state acts to anchor the process
of pensions rematerialization and, crucially, concludes by
outlining a coherent and radical programme of progressive pensions
reform.
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