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Fair Markets
Markets are the best way to create and distribute wealth, but they don’t always work well for all the people in them. We research ways that sensible interactions between the state and the private sector can maximise growth and fairness.
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The Politics of Housing
This report illustrates the highly paradoxical nature of the housing market: whilst housing is viewed as a private problem, it remains a very political issue; although housing comprises a principal determinant of quality of life and shortage of housing undermines quality of life, many individuals oppose an increase in supply.
| Published: | 08 November 2013 |
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| Author(s): | Nigel Keohane, Nida Broughton |
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Family Fortunes: the bank of mum and dad in low income families
In a major new study looking at the extent of intergenerational support in low-income families, the Social Market Foundation calls on Government to do more to facilitate such family-based welfare....
| Published: | 25 October 2013 |
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| Author: | Ryan Shorthouse |
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Good for Growth: Refocusing Entrepreneurship Policy
This paper sets out a framework for analysing the benefits of different types of entrepreneurship, based on existing research and evidence. It goes on to show how the UK performs compared to other countries, and concludes by looking at where we should focus efforts to encourage more of the kind of entrepreneurship that is good for growth.
| Published: | 23 July 2013 |
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| Author(s): | Kitty Ussher, Nida Broughton |
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Jam Tomorrow? The next 20 years of savings policy
This report of an SMF scenario-planning exercise elucidates the evolving policy challenges. The report highlights important emerging tensions that policy-makers will need to address – now and in the coming decades – to re-build households' financial resilience and ensure that individuals save adequately for later life.
| Published: | 22 November 2012 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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Markets in a State? The Social Market Foundation at 21
To mark its 21st year, the Social Market Foundation commissioned essays by leading politicians, academics and journalists on social market policy in a period of sustained economic crisis.
| Published: | 17 November 2011 |
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| Author(s): | Ian Mulheirn, Mary Ann Sieghart, Philip Collins, David Lipsey, David Owen, Dieter Helm, John Kay, Robert Skidelsky, Peter Lilley |
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Savings on a Shoestring: A whole new approach to savings policy
With ideas from a No Lose Lottery to a Savings Smartcard, this report calls for creativity from policy makers, banks and businesses, to develop savings policy for people who don't much like to save.
| Published: | 24 July 2011 |
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| Author(s): | Jeff Masters, Emily Farchy |
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A Confidence Crisis? Restoring Trust in Financial Services
The report recommends government intervention to improve the quality of financial services, shifting competition onto the price of improved services, while maintaining consumer choice.
| Published: | 17 July 2011 |
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| Author: | John Springford |
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Manufacturing Prosperity
In this timely paper, Steve Coulter argues that the Government needs to take an institutional approach to driving UK manufacturing up the value chain.
| Published: | 23 March 2011 |
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| Author: | Steve Coulter |
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Public Sector Pensions: Planning the Future
As the UK government contemplates root and branch reform of public sector pensions, this edited collection brings together a range of expert contributions to explore the arguments behind the debate and the options facing ministers.
| Published: | 08 December 2010 |
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| Author: | James Lloyd |