25th May 2015

Austerity Bites: A journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK, by Mary O’Hara

Policy Press, 2014, xiv + 320 pp, 1 4473 1560 5, hbk, £19.99 During 2012 and 2013 Mary O’Hara travelled the UK to find out what effects the Coalition Government’s Read More

25th May 2015

Learning from Difference: 150 years of family endeavour. From Afghanistan and the Americas to the Meon Valley and loss of an airport, by Balfour

Tricorn Books, 2014, 1 1909660 27 4, hbk, 267 pp (along with some diversely numbered pages of photographs), £20. You need to be strong to read this book, because it Read More

25th April 2015

Global Social Policy in the Making: The foundations of the social protection floor, by Bob Deacon

Policy Press, 2013, xii + 218 pp, 1 4473 1233 8, hbk, £70, 1 4473 1234 5, pbk, £24.99 In a world in which so many bad things happen, and Read More

25th April 2015

Climate Change and Poverty: A new agenda for developed nations, by Tony Fitzpatrick

Policy Press, 2014, x + 259 pp, hbk, 1 44730 087 8, £70, pbk, 1 44730 086 1, £24.99 Tony Fitzpatrick’s claim in this book is that climate change turns Read More

25th April 2015

Basic Income: A transformative policy for India, by Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Soumya Kapoor Mehta and Guy Standing

Bloomsbury, 2015, xii + 234 pp, 1 4725 8310 9, hbk, xvi + 331 pp, £65, 1 4725 8311 6, pbk, xvi + 331 pp, £19.99 How can poverty be Read More

25th April 2015

Good Times, Bad Times: The welfare myth of them and us, by John Hills

Policy Press, 2014, 1 44732 003 6, pbk, xviii + 323 pp, £12.99 The title says it all: the normal experience for most families and individuals is that there will Read More

25th March 2015

A Better World is Possible: What needs to be done and how we can make it happen, by Bruce Nixon

O Books, 2011, 1-84694-514-4, pbk, 396 pp, £14.99 This really is a book about everything: the financial crisis, climate change, peak oil, ecosystem destruction, poverty, and war: and it is Read More

25th March 2015

Reclaiming Individualism: Perspectives on public policy, by Paul Spicker

Policy Press, 2013, vii + 208 pp, 1 4473 0908 6, hbk, £70 Moral individualism depends on the premise, not just that each person is an individual, but also that Read More

25th March 2015

‘Could a ‘Citizen’s Income’ work?’, by Donald Hirsch (Joseph Rowntree Foundation Research Paper)

A paper commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of its Minimum Income Standard programme, and published in March 2015. Full report here. The Citizen’s Income Newsletter usually mentions relevant Read More

20th March 2015

Citizen’s Income News: Spring 2015

Guy Standing and his colleagues have published Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India – the results of an extensive Citizen’s Income pilot project in India. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation Read More