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This insightful book looks at the phenomenon of low-cost innovation and explores what we can learn from the innovators in developing nations who are making amazing technical and social advances with scarce capital and resources. Charles Leadbeater shows how these methods can be applied and used wherever you are and whatever your capital

When global markets leave resources and power in the hands of too few people, everybody suffers, says Charles Leadbeater. The ALT/Now programme – a Canadian group of social entrepreneurs – demonstrates how an ethic of stewardship can shift our economy towards one that puts people first.

Marxism Today argued that the left had to be interested in society and how it was changing. Charles Leadbeater argues that, to respond to the current political moment, the left must engage deeply in the culture of modern Britain.

Discusses the challenges to the central English state concerning the delivery of public goods & services. The shift from neoliberalism to New Labour is recounted, with attention to problems of the top-down & bottom-up approaches & limits of public service reform. Current efforts to improve public services include reformed centralism, a new localism, & personalization, & the state's overall objective should be to influence its citizenry for responsible self-regulation & increase in the public good. L. Collins Leigh