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Peter Abrahamson, Thomas P. Boje, Bent Greve.

Welfare and Families in Europe

Ashgate, 2005, 244 pages, hardback, 0 75 464249 6, £55


Stuart Adam, Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard

The Poverty Trade-off: work incentives and income redistribution in Britain

Policy Press, Bristol / Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2006, viii + 55 pp, paperback, 1 86134 863 0, £12.95


Thomas Aronsson, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren and Kenneth Backlund.

Welfare Measurement in Imperfect Markets

Edward Elgar, 2004, viii + 196 pp, hardback, 1 84064 779 5, £59.95


A. B. Atkinson

Public Economics in Action

HarperCollins, 2001, pp.xvi+708, £12.99


Charles Bazlinton

The Free Lunch

Orchard Four Books, 2002, viii + 169 pp., pb., 0 9544105 0 5, £9.99.


Christina Behrendt.

At the Margins of the Welfare State: Social assistance and the alleviation of poverty in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Ashgate, 2002, xiv + 244 pp., hb., 0 7546 1996 6, £42.50.


Richard Berthoud and Maria Iacovou (eds).

Social Europe: Living standards and welfare states

Edward Elgar, 2004, 296 pp, hardback, 1 84376 676 0, £59.95.


Richard Berthoud

Work-rich and Work-poor

Policy Press, 2007, viii + 55 pp, pbk, 978 1 86134 954 5, £12.95


Jonathan Bradshaw (ed.).

Children and Social Security, Ashgate

Aldershot, 2003, 284 pp., hb., 0 7546 3164 8, £42.50.


Samuel Brittan

Towards a Humane Individualism

Pamphlet available from the John Stuart Mill Institute, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE, published 1998, ISBN 1 871952 15 8, price £7.50

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Luigino Brunl and Pier Luigi Porta (eds),

Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

Edward Elgar, 2007,xxxvii + 596 pp, hbk, 978 1 84376 826 7, £150


Trevor Buck and Roger S. Smith (eds.).

Poor Relief or Poor Deal? The Social Fund, Safety Nets and Social Security

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, 250 pp., hb., 0 7546 3335 7, £45.00.


Tania Burchardt and Julian Le Grand.

Constraint and Opportunity: Identifying Voluntary Non-Employment

(CASEpaper 55, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, 2002). A summary appears as CASEbrief 22.

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Robert Chote, Carl Emmerson, Andrew Leicester and David Miles (eds.),

The IFS Green Budget: January 2007

Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2007, 250pp, pbk., 1 903274 48 6


Frank A. Cowell (ed.).

The Economics of Poverty and Inequality

Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2003, 2 volumes, 1360 pp, hb, 1 84064 567 9, £340.


John Creedy and Cath Sleeman

The Distributional Effects of Indirect Taxes: Models and applications from New Zealand

Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006, xiii + 261 pp., hardback, 1 84720 042 7, £6.


John Cunliffe and Guido Erreygers (eds).

The Origins of Universal Grants: An Anthology of Historical Writings on Basic Capital and Basic Income

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xxix + 179 pp, hardback, 1 4039 1896 1, £50


David Craig, with Richard Brooks

Plundering the Public Sector

Constable, London, 2006, viii + 263 pp., paperback, 1 84529 374 6, £9.99


David Darton, Donald Hirsch and Jason Strelitz.

Tackling disadvantage: a 20-year enterprise: A working paper for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Centenary Conference, December 2004

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2003, 48 pp., pb., 1 85935 091 7, £11.95.


Sarah del Tufo and Lucy Gaster.

Evaluation of the Commission on Poverty, Participation and Power

(Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002).


Brian E. Dollery and Joe L. Wallis.

The Political Economy of the Voluntary Sector: A Reappraisal of the Comparative Institutional Advantage of Voluntary Organizations

Edward Elgar, 2003, 208pp, hardback, 1 84064 793 0, £49.95.


Paul Dornan.

Delivering Benefits in Old Age: The Take up of the Minimum Income Guarantee

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, 254pp, hardback, 0 7546 4688 2, £50


Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin and Carole Pateman (eds).

Justice and Democracy

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, paperback, 0521545439, £14.99, hardback, 0521836956, £40 Now avaiable in paper back £15.99.


Keith Dowding, Jurgen de Wispelaere and Stuart White (eds)

The Ethics of Stakeholding

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003, 216pp, hbk, 1 40390 580 0, £52


Peter Dwyer.

Understanding Social Citizenship

The Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, pb, 1 86134 415 5, £17.99, hb, 1 86134 416 3, £50. Also in Paperback £17.99


Martin Evans, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, George Smith, Myfanwy Lloyd and Chris Dibben.

Growing together or growing apart? Geographic patterns of change of Income Support and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance claimants in England between 1995 and 2000

(The Policy Press for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002).

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Martin Evans and Jill Eyre.

The opportunities of a lifetime: Model lifetime analysis of current British social policy

The Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, 91pp, pbk, 1 86134 651 4, £16.95


The Fabian Society.

Narrowing the Gap: the final report of the Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty

The Fabian Society, London, 2006, 224pp, pbk, 0 7163 4102 6, £9.95


Frank Field

Welfare Titans: How Lloyd George and Gordon Brown Compare, and other essays on welfare reform

Civitas, London, 2002, 77 pp, pb, 1 903 386 20 9, £4.


Tony Fitzpatrick and Michael Cahill (eds.).

Environment and Welfare: Towards a Green Social Policy

Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002, xii + 226 pp., hb., 0 333 91984 X, £45.00.


Didier Fouarge.

Poverty and Subsidiarity in Europe: Minimum protection from an economic perspective

Edward Elgar, 2004, 264 pp, hardback, 1 84376 605 1, £59.95


Henry George

Progress and Poverty (edited and abridged for modern readers by Bob Drake)

Robert Shalkenbach Foundation, New York, 2006, paperback, $12.95, distributed in the UK by Shepeard Walwyn, London, 0 911312 98 6.


Robley E. George.

Socioeconomic Democracy: An advanced socioeconomic system

(Praeger, 2002). Paper back. £18.99.


Jay Ginn, Debra Street and Sara Arber (eds.).

Women, Work and Pensions

(Open University Press, 2002, 270 pages). Paper Back £24.00


Jay Ginn.

Gender, Pensions and the Lifecourse

The Policy Press, Bristol, 2003, 152pp, pb, 1 86134 337 X, £17.99, hb, 1 86134 338 8, £45. Order this book. Also in paper back £17.99


Caroline Glendinning and Peter A. Kemp

Cash and Care: Policy challenges in the welfare state

Policy Press, 2006, xii + 322 pp, pbk, 1 86134 856 8, £22.99


Howard Glennerster, John Hills, David Piachaud and Jo Webb.

One Hundred Years of Poverty and Policy

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2004, paperback, 188 pp., 1 85935 221 9, £8.95


Ramon Gomez-Salvador, Ana Lamo, Barbara Petrongolo, Melanie Ward and Etienne Wasmer (eds).

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, 412 pages, hb, 1 84542 129 9, £75


Ramon Gomez-Salvador, Ana Lamo, Barbara Petrongolo, Melanie Ward and Etienne Wasmer (eds.).

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, 412 pp, hardback, 1 84542 129 9, £75


Jorgen Goul Andersen and Per H. Jensen (eds).

Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship

(Bristol: The Policy Press, 2002) ISBN: 1-86134-272-1. Paper Back £ 23.99


Loek Groot.

Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004, 142 pp, hbk, 1 4020 2614 5, £42.


Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson (eds)

Housing and the new welfare state: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007, 224pp, hardback, 0 7546 4440 8, £55.


Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson (eds), , Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007

Catherine Hakim.

Models of the Family in Modern Society: Ideals and Realities

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, 282 pp., hb 0 7546 3728 X, £45. Paper back £20.


Michael Hill

Pensions

Policy Press, 2007, xiii + 183 pp, pbk, 978 1 86134 851 7, £12.99


John Hills, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud (eds.).

Understanding Social Exclusion

(Oxford University Press, 2002), £50, hb, 274+xiv pp. Paperback £21.99


John Hills and Kitty Stewart (eds).

A More Equal Society?

Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, 408 pp, paperback 1 8613 4577 1, £15.99, hardback 1 8613 4578 X, £44. Now avaibale in paper back £19.99.


Gar Alperovitz. Hoboken

America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy

John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey, 2004, pp. xv + 320, $ 24.95, 0 471 66730 7


John Hudson and Stuart Lowe.

Understanding the Policy Process: Analysing welfare policy and practice

The Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, pb 1 86134 540 2, xiv + 283 pp, £17.99, hb 1 86134 539 9, £50.


Institute for Public Policy Research, Social Market Foundation, Policy Exchange, Scottish Council Foundation and Institute of Welsh Affairs.

Overcoming Disadvantage: An agenda for the next 20 years

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2004, pb 1 85935 142 5, 135 pp, £8.95


Bill Jordan

The New Politics of Welfare

Sage Publications, October 1998, 256pp, cloth £45.00, paperback £14.99


Peter Kemp, Steve Wilcox and David Rhodes.

Housing Benefit Reform: Next Steps

(Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002)


Peter Kemp (ed).

Housing allowances in comparative perspective

(The Policy Press, Bristol, 2007, 340pp, hardback, 1 86134 754 1, £65)


Martina Klett-Davies

Going it Alone?

Ashgate, 2007, 166 pp, hbk, 978 0 7546 4388 3, £55


Jon Kvist and Juho Saari (eds.)

The Europeanisation of Social Protection

Policy Press, Bristol, 2007, xi + 308pp., paperback, 1847420192, £25, hardback, 1847420206, £65


Christian Albrekt Larsen

The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes

Ashgate, 2006, 184 pp, hbk, 0 7546 4857 5, £45


Gail Lewis.

Citizenship: Personal lives and social policy

The Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, pb 1 86134 521 6, viii + 184 pp, £17.99.


Ruth Lister.

Poverty

Polity Press, Cambridge, 2004, xi + 238 pp, paperback, 0 7456 2564 9, £14.99


Clive Lord.

A Citizen's Income: a foundation for a sustainable world

John Carpenter, 2003, £8.99, pb, vii + 153pp, ISBN 1 897766 87 4.


Frances McGinnity.

Welfare for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany: Who benefits ?

Edward Elgar, 2004, 240 pp, hardback, 1 84376 220 X, £55


Ailsa McKay.

The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and a Citizen's Basic Income

Routledge, London, 2005, 269pp, hardback, 0 415 34436 0, £50


Gerry Mooney (ed.).

Work: Personal lives and social policy

Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, viii + 173pp, pb, 1 86134 520 8, £17.99.


Ruud J.A. Muffels, Panos Tsakloglou and David G. Mayes (eds.).

Social Exclusion in European Welfare States

Edward Elgar, 2002, xxii + 366 pp., hb., 1 8464 803 1, £65.


Charles Murray

In Our Hands: A plan to replace the welfare state

The American Enterprise Institute Press, Washington DC, 2006, 230pp, hbk, 0 8447 4223 6, £10.50/$20


Michael Otsuka.

Libertarianism without inequality

Oxford University Press, 2003, 158 pages, hb, 0 19 924395 6, £25.


Guy Palmer, Mohibur Rahman and Peter Kenway.

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2002

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002, 110 pp., pb., 1 85935 074 7, £16.95.


Guy Palmer, Jane Carr and Peter Kenway.

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2005

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2005, 117pp, pbk, 1 85935 397 5, £16.95


Guy Palmer, Tom MacInnes and Peter Kenway

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2006

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2006, paperback, 978 1 85935 535 0, £16.95, or downloadable from www.jrf.org.uk or www.poverty.org.uk.


Hermione Parker

Low Cost but Acceptable

Policy Press, 1998, ISBN 1861341369, 158pp


Will Paxton and Stuart White with Dominic Maxwell (eds.).

The Citizen's Stake: Exploring the future of universal asset policies

Policy Press, Bristol, 2006, 212pp, paperback, 1 86134 699 9, £19.99.


David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland.

Changing Poverty Post-1997

Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, CASEpaper no. 63, 2002, x + 45 pp., pb.

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Mohibur Rahman, Guy Palmer and Peter Kenway.

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2001

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2001, ISBN 1 85935 069 0. Paper back.


Gerry Redmond, Holly Sutherland and Moira Wilson

The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform: A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis

Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998


Andrew Reeve and Andrew Williams (eds.).

Real Libertarianism Assessed: Political Theory after Van Parijs

Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2002, 240pp, hb, 0333912675, £50.


Martin Rein and Winfried Schmähl.

Rethinking the Welfare State

Edward Elgar, 2004, 480 pp, hardback, 1 84376 102 5, £79.95


Tim Robinson

Work, Leisure and the Environment

Edward Elgar, 2006, x + 136 pp, hbk, 1 84720 103 4, £39.95


Peter G. Rosner.

The Economics of Social Policy

Edward Elgar, 2003, xv + 356 pp., hb, 1 84064 496 6, Hard Back £69.95. Paper Back £25.00


Kirstein Rummery.

Disability, Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights ?

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002, 212 pp., hb, 0 7546 1757 2, £39.95.


Neri Salvadori and Carlo Panico (eds)

Classical, Neoclassical and Keynesian Views on Growth and Distribution

Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006, xxii+318pp, hardback, 1 84542 309 7, £69.95


Hedva Sarfati and Giuliano Bonoli (eds.).

Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002, 494 pp., hb, 0 7546 1926 5, £55; pb, 0 7546 1927 3, £23.50.


Peter Saunders, Jonathan Bradshaw and Michael Hirst.

'Using Household Expenditure to Develop an Income Poverty Line'

Social Policy and Administration, vol.36, no.3, June 2002, pp.217-234.

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Michael Schneider.

The Distribution of Wealth

Edward Elgar, 2004, 168 pp, hardback, 1 84064 814 7, £45


Erik Schoffaert (ed.).

Ethics and Social Security Reform

(International Studies on Social Security, vol 7, Aldershot: Ashgate). Hard Back £65.00


Mohammed Sharif.

Work Behavior of the World's Poor: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, 192 pp, hb, 0 7546 3066 8, £49.95.


Sheila Shaver.

'Austral