Introduction

Abstract

This book looks at the assets agenda. In recent times the idea of spreading the individual ownership of assets such as capital grants, homes and savings has caught the imagination of politicians, academics and policy-makers in a number of places across the world. This interest surfaces in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Britain. Implementing an assets agenda has potentially radical implications for the way that economic and social institutions are constituted. It points potentially to a radical redistribution of large inequalities of wealth that exists in many countries today.