6th October 2011

The Single Tier State Pension

These are interesting times for debate on the reform of the tax and benefits system. By the time you read this Newsletter the Government’s consultation period on the future of Read More

26th September 2011

The Precariat: The new dangerous class, by Guy Standing

Bloomsbury, 2011, ix + 198 pp, pbk, 1 849 66351 9, £19.99 In the 1970s, a group of ideologically inspired economists captured the ears and minds of politicians. The central Read More

26th September 2011

The Conservative Party and Social Policy, edited by Hugh Bochel

Policy Press, 2011, vii + 326 pp, pbk, 1 847 42432 7, £23.99, hbk, 1 847 42433 4, £65 New Labour’s social policy exhibited considerable continuities with the previous Conservative Read More

26th July 2011

Women’s Work and Pensions: What is Good, What is Best? Designing Gender-Sensitive Arrangements, edited by Bernd Marin and Eszter Zólyomi

Ashgate, 2010, 321 pp, pbk 1 4094 0698 3, £35 The chapters of this book started life at a conference organised by the European Centre in Vienna, and it is Read More

26th June 2011

BIEN-Suisse, Le financement d’un revenu de base inconditionnel

Seismo, 2010, 204 pp, pbk, 2 88351 049 4, 38 SFr We normally only review books in English, but with this edited collection we make an exception, not because it Read More

6th June 2011

Citizen’s Income News, Summer 2011

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published Universal Credit: A Preliminary Analysis. Their researchers write: ‘Our empirical analysis in Sections 4 and 5 illustrates well the constraints all governments face Read More

6th June 2011

Labour Party Policy

Kate Green MP writes in the Winter 2010/11 edition of the Fabian Review: In Labour’s current policy review, I’ll be arguing that universal benefits have an important role to play Read More

26th May 2011

Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy, by Ruth Lister

Policy Press, 2010, xii + 311 pp, hbk 1 861 34794 7, £60, pbk 1 861 34793 0, £19.99. Not only is this a most useful textbook, but it is Read More

26th May 2011

Reinventing Social Security Worldwide, by Vladimir Rys

Policy Press, 2010, x + 126 pp, hbk 1 847 42643, £60, pbk 1 847 426406, £19.99 This book is the fruit of a lifetime of academic research and administrative Read More

28th April 2011

Why the Third Way Failed, by Bill Jordan

Policy Press, 2010, iv + 228 pp, pbk 978 1 84742 656 7, £22.99, hbk, 978 1 84742 657 4, £65 Tony Blair’s and New Labour’s ‘Third Way’ expected contracts Read More