14th August 2015

Social Rights and Human Welfare, by Hartley Dean

Routledge, 2015, xiv + 194 pp, 1 138 01310 0, hbk, £95, 1 138 01312 4, pbk, £32.99 Hartley Dean will soon be starting the process of retiring as Professor Read More

14th August 2015

Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and transnational perspectives, by Daniel Béland and Klaus Petersen (eds)

Policy Press, 2014, xiv + 327 pp, 1 4473 0644 3, hbk, £70 This book is a study of the language that OECD countries use to describe social policies: language Read More

14th August 2015

Disputing Citizenship, by John Clarke, Kathleen Coll, Evelina Dagnino and Catherine Neveu

Policy Press, 2014, viii + 214 pp, hbk, 1 4473 1252 9, £70, pbk, 1 4473 1253 6, £21.99 The authors of this book come from the UK, the USA, Read More

25th July 2015

Modernising Money: Why our monetary system is broken, and how it can be fixed, by Andrew Jackson and Ben Dyson

Positive Money, 2012, 0 9574448 0 5, pbk, 334 pp, £14.99 A bank loan is a change in the electronic digits attached to my bank account number. The bank has Read More

25th June 2015

With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to save our middle class when jobs don’t pay enough, by Peter Barnes

Berret-Koehler Publishers, 2014, 1 62656 214 1, pbk, xii + 174 pp, £13.99 There are not enough well-paid jobs to sustain a large middle class, and Peter Barnes offers as Read More

25th June 2015

Reducing Tax Credits and Housing Benefit

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has decided that £12bn must be cut from the benefits bill, and that much of that saving will come from reducing the levels of Tax Credits Read More

15th June 2015

Citizen’s Income News: Summer 2015

Community Links has published two reports. Just About Surviving studies the cumulative impact of recent welfare reforms on the residents of the London Borough of Newham. ‘People want to work Read More

15th June 2015

The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Green Budget, 2015

The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ annual Green Budget sets out in as objective a way as possible the options facing the Chancellor of the Exchequer as he approaches his budget Read More

15th June 2015

Localisation

In a report entitled Poverty and Devolution, the Institute for Public Policy Research suggests criteria for deciding whether a benefit could be devolved to a more local level (as Council Read More

15th June 2015

Think tanks

Think tanks are now an essential part of the political landscape. There was a time when political parties openly debated policy ideas: but no longer. Newspapers, social media, blogs, and Read More