14th June 2013
Partly inspired by a seminar given by Elizabeth Anderson at the IPPR on 13 June, in which the question of how far egalitarians should rely on income redistribution was debated.I argue that our main form of income redistribution, the social security system, achieves some equalisation of income but only as a by-product of poverty reduction. Egalitarian aims go far beyond poverty reduction, I guess, so the implication is that egalitarian strategies sit alongside the objectives of social security rather than informing them or- as some seem to feel these days- competing with them. To say that social security is mainly about reducing poverty, and that that's no bad thing, is not of course to say that poverty reduction in any way defines the limits of social justice, or that other welfare state functions do not serve broader egalitarian objectives.
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8th March 2013
Not your typical idiotic Daily Mail story: this one was written for them by the Treasury!
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25th May 2012
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5th January 2012
How and why Housing Benefit spending has increased
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8th September 2011
This is an updated version of a presentation at the Left Foot Forward session at the Compass June 2011 conference.
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