Edward Elgar, 2007, x + 228 pp, hbk, 1 84720 246 8, £59.95 Every science sets off from axioms: a set of unproven, and generally unprovable, hypotheses. Since Adam Smith, Read More
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, Allen Lane, 2009, xvii + 331 pp, hbk, 1 846 14039 6, £20 We Read More
Policy Press, 2008, ix + 155 pp, hbk, 1 84742 046 6, £65 In the UK the 1995 Jobseekers Act made receipt of benefit dependent on searching for and accepting Read More
Volume I: Analytical Approaches; volume II: Varieties and Transformations; volume III: Legitimation, Achievement and Integration, Edward Elgar, 2008, 2,176pp, hbk, 1 84720 080 X, £495 This three-volume set collects together Read More
Policy Press, 2008, ix + 288 pp, pbk, 1 84742 269 9, £29.99, hbk, 1 84742 294 1, £70 This book is timely. Recent discussion of whether or not a Read More
Edward Elgar, 2007, xi + 220 pp, hbk, 1 84376 133 5, £59.95 The author views the legislative process which led to the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Read More
Policy Press, 2008, iv + 283 pp, hbk, 1 84742 081 7, £65, pbk, 1 84742 080 0, £22.50 This is a polemic, and a most effective one. The first Read More
Policy Press, 2007, vii + 280 pp, hbk, 1 86134 799 2, £60 In this well-researched study O’Brien locates New Zealand’s social security system, its various reforms, and the debate Read More