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6th June 2011

Two Memoirs Tell the History of the Alaska Dividend

Dave Rose and Charles Wohlforth, Saving For the Future: My Life and the Alaska Permanent Fund, Epicenter Press, Kenmore, WA, 2008, 256pp, hbk, 978 0 9790470 4 6, $24.95, pbk, 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

28th March 2011

The Impact of Parental Employment: Young People, Well-Being and Educational Achievement, by Linda Cusworth

Ashgate, 2009, xvi + 243 pp, hbk 0 754 675594, £60 Do parents’ employment patterns influence their children’s well-being as children, as adolescents, and as adults? The answer is ‘yes’, Read More

28th March 2011

Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for a post-capitalist era, by Harry Shutt

Zed books, 2010, 243 pp, hbk 1 84813 416 4, £65, pbk 1 84813 417 1, £12.99 Harry Shutt begins with a diagnosis of the evils which led to the Read More

28th February 2011

The Peter Townsend Reader

The Policy Press, 2010, xviii + 678 pp, hbk 1 847 424051, £70, pbk 1 847 424044, £24.99 This reader is an inspiration, and we are hugely in the debt Read More

28th January 2011

Understanding Human Need, by Hartley Dean

Policy Press, 2010, xvii + 217 pp, pbk, 1 84742 189 0, £21.99, hbk, 1 84742 190 6, £65 The concept of need is at least as complex as the Read More

28th December 2010

The Economics of Social Problems, by Julian Le Grand, Carol Propper and Sarah Smith,

Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edition 2008, viii + 208 pp, pbk, 0 230 55300 1, £24.99 This is the fourth edition of an important textbook which for over thirty years has Read More

28th November 2010

Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, by Daniel Dorling

Policy Press, 2010, xii + 387 pp, hbk, 978 1 84742 426 6, £13.99 Review by Daniel Whittall The editorial for the Citizens Income Newsletter 2010, issue 1, in praise of Read More