10th January 2016

The New Economics of Income Distribution, by Friedrich L. Sell

Published by Edward Elgar, ISBN 1 78347 236 9, hbk, xiii + 264 pp, 2015, £80 Not only is inequality of both wealth and income increasing in many countries, including Read More

14th November 2015

Inequality, by Anthony B. Atkinson

Harvard University Press, 2015, ix + 384 pp, hbk, 0 674 50476 9, £19.95 Politicians of all political parties tell us that inequality is a problem and that they are Read More

15th October 2015

The manifestos

The General Election is now over, so it is appropriate to review what the major parties said about the benefits system in their manifestos. The manifestos divide into three groups: Read More

14th October 2015

Citizens’ Income News: Autumn 2015

The Institute of Gerontology at King’s College, London, has published a report, An Age Friendly City – How far has London come? by Anthea Tinker and Jay Ginn: Oe of Read More

14th October 2015

Knowledge in Policy: Embodied, inscribed, enacted, by Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy (eds)

Policy Press, 2014, xi + 242 pp, 1 4473 0998 7, hbk, £70 We know things; we express that knowledge; and we make use of it when we do things. Read More

14th September 2015

The Fourth Revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality, by Luciano Floridi

Oxford University Press, 2014, 0 19 960672 6, hbk, xvi + 248 pp, £16.99 We cannot help being aware that information and communication technology (ICT) is changing the ways in Read More

14th September 2015

Social Policy: Theory and Practice, by Paul Spicker

Policy Press, 2014, xii + 499 pp, 1 4473 1609 1, hbk, £70, 1 4473 1610 7, pbk, £23.99 This third edition of Paul Spicker’s Social Policy combines updated material Read More

14th September 2015

Energy Security, Equality, and Justice, by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Roman V. Sidortsov, and Benjamin R. Jones

Routledge, 2014, xix + 213 pp, hbk 0 415 81519 2, £85, pbk, 0 415 81520 8, £27.99 This book is a recent product of the Vermont Law School’s Institute Read More

14th September 2015

The Illusion of Well-being: Economic policymaking based on respect and responsiveness, by Mark White

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, viii + 206 pp, pbk, 1 137 36466 1, £22 This short book, of an introduction and just four chapters has a clear agenda: that people’s interests Read More

14th September 2015

Breadline Britain: The rise of mass poverty, by Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack

Oneworld Publications, 2015, 1 78074 554 2, pbk, xvii + 334 pp, £9.99 On my bookshelves there is a slim paperback written by Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack called Breadline Read More