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Adam Smith’s Pragmatic Liberalism
Adam Smith is commonly conceived as either an economist or a moral philosopher so his importance as a political thinker has been somewhat neglected and, at times, even denied. This book reveals the integrated, deeply political project that lies at the heart of Smith’s thought, showing both the breadth and novelty of Smith’s approach to political thought. A key argument running through the book is that attempts to locate Smith on the left-right spectrum (however that was interpreted in the eighteenth century) are mistaken: his position was ultimately dictated by his social scientific and economic thought rather than by ideology or principle. Through examining Smith’s political interests...
Justice as Welfare
Justice as Welfare links equality, justice and welfare at the philosophical level, to propose an egalitarian view of social justice.
The Welfare Trait
The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award-winning personality researcher Dr Adam Perkins argues that welfare-induced personality mis-development is a significant part of the problem. In support of his theory, Dr Perkins presents data showing that the welfare state can boost the number of children born into disadvantaged households, and that childhood disadvantage promotes the development of an employment-resistant personality profile, ch...
Great Crowns of Stone
Stone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
Welfare Economics in English Utopias
The author is fully aware of the difficulties connected with an adequate treatment of this subject, in view of the general back ground of that fascinating age - the seventeenth century. The present work is simply a modest attempt to draw attention to some in many cases forgotten or disregarded Utopian writings and to show the long line of thought behind many concepts which, to the modern reader, may seem obvious truths. He is very much indebted to Professor H. W. Lambers of Rotterdam for his constant encouragement, help and criticism and also for his willingness to forget for a moment his many other duties and to pass much of his valuable time in the critical study of the seventeenth century...
Adam Smith, the Competitive Process, and the Flawed Consumer Welfare Standard
Scottish economist Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that the collective buying and selling of individuals would result in the preferred allocation of society's resources. That insight has endured and is the basis for the competition law goal of fostering and protecting the competitive process. That goal, with venerable roots on both sides of the Atlantic, has been sidetracked by emergence of the consumer welfare standard, which is now preeminent in competition law analysis. The narrow focus of the consumer welfare standard has led to confusion and misdirected decisions that do not adequately protect the competitive process. I point to confusion about who is the buyer and who is the seller in many tr...
Welfare that Works
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Consultation responses to 21st century welfare
In July of this year the Department published 21st Century welfare (Cm. 7913, ISBN 9780101791328), a consultative paper that laid out the problems of poor work incentives and complexity in the benefits and tax credits systems. One of the main proposals in the paper was for a universal credit, which would incorporate out-of-work benefits, in-work support and appropriate amounts for housing, disability and families for people of working age. The aim of the universal credit would be to ensure that anyone on benefits who starts work will better of than they would have been on benefits. This report outlines responses to the consultation on these proposals. The overall themes of responses were: agreement that fundamental reform was necessary and support of the basic tenets of the proposals; of the five options for reform suggested there was widespread agreement with the universal credit proposal; overwhelming support for simplifying and streamlining both the benefit structure & the delivery process; a strong belief that people should be clearly better off in work than on benefits; and the need for more details before full endorsement of the proposals could be given
Oxford Handbook of Patients' Welfare
This handbook has been written to give general practitioners, hospital doctors and others involved in medical and social care an easily accessible, practical reference on benefits, welfare systems, and services available to patients, an area that is not included in doctors' training. It shouldcomplement our clinical medical handbooks. Doctors can give their patients a better service if they are well-informed about the NHS, disability and other benefits available, income and housing benefits, what to do when a patient dies, and many other situations and procedures. Mr Sandell plans toupdate information on a web site. Adam Sandell is a final-year medical student who is also a local counsellor; he chairs the city's anti-poverty working party, and is also a director of the Oxford Citizen's Advice Bureau.
