Crosland summary

• Human nature (Crosland)

  Has a powerful sense of fairness and an innate objection to huge inequalities of outcome
• State (Crosland)

  Democratic socialist governments prove that the existing state can be used to effect radical change
• Society (Crosland)

  Increasingly complicated. Altered by the emergence of new social groups comprising 'meritocratic' managers and 'classless' technocrats
• Economy (Crosland)

  A mixed economy underpinned by limited public ownership and Keynesian capitalism will finance the greater public spending necessary to secure equality