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Transformative ideas-ensuring a just share of progress for all
This edited volume explores the need for a transformative approach to envisioning a just social and economic model. A cross-disciplinary team of academic experts was formed to develop this approach, with the aim of proposing concrete policy ideas that are both transformative and original. While these ideas should not be contingent on a revolutionary reconfiguration…
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The best books to bust common myths about our human nature
We were glad to be given the chance by shepherd.com to choose a list of the best five books on a topic of interest to us. So here it is: a list of the best five books that explain why human nature is more complicated and more beautiful than it is often given credit for.…
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Child and family health and wellbeing in Bradford and Tower Hamlets
A new report from the ActEarly project’s Healthy Livelihoods theme describing the economic, social and health context for families
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Inequality is a key cause of our epidemic of mental health problems
Click for Kate’s blog for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance
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The Change We Need
SPIRIT LEVEL LESSONS: A Six Point Plan For The Right (Left) Kind Of Active Government. We contributed this chapter to the new publication from the Tribune Group of Labour MPs
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UBI for mental wellbeing
Levelling the Mental Health Gradiant Among Young People: How Universal Basic Income can address the crisis in depression and anxiety
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Scarcity and growth
This post celebrates the reprinting of Richard’s “Poverty and Progress” (1973) and looks at the driving forces of economic growth. Read the blog here: https://weall.org/scarcity-and-growth and order the re-issued book here:https://www.routledge.com/Poverty-and-Progress-An-Ecological-Model-of-Economic-Development/Wilkinson/p/book/9781032307039
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We review new books on inequality by Thomas Piketty and Jon Wisman
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01680-5 Click on the link above to read our review in Nature
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Tackling poverty – the power of a basic income
Here is the evidence that a Universal Basic Income is affordable and beneficial – imagine how good it would feel to be tackling child poverty while enhancing everybody’s financial security. This could be a giant step forward to a better post-Covid world