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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.
Latest Publications:
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The Social Market Twenty Years On
Philip Collins served as director of the SMF and as speechwriter for Tony Blair. In this essay, Collins defines three pillars upon which the social market philosophy stands: markets are 'social organisms'; the 'thin line' between politics and markets make
| Published: | 06 December 2010 |
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| Author: | Philip Collins |
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The Social Market Economy Revisited
In The Social Market Economy Revisited, former Chairman of the SMF, Lord Skidelsky, returns to the themes of his seminal 1989 essay that marked launched the Foundation.
| Published: | 23 August 2010 |
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| Author: | Robert Skidelsky |
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The Market Economy: Twenty-one years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
In the second of a series of essays to mark the 21st anniversary of the Social Market Foundation, John Kay looks back at the triumph of the market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
| Published: | 20 July 2010 |
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| Author: | John Kay |
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Early Access to Pension Saving
This report examines the evidence that current pension rules, associated with the UK 'annuities deal', deter pension saving. The report also explores in detail the practical considerations and problems that would be confronted by the multiple 'early access' models of pension saving that have been proposed.
| Published: | 22 March 2010 |
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| Author: | James Lloyd |
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EU Social Market and Social Policy
This publications, part of the ongoing celebrations of the SMF at twenty-one, looks back at the intellectual history of the Social Market Foundation to show how social market ideas can influence policy and politics into the future.
| Published: | 10 March 2010 |
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| Author: | David Owen |
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Should the Green Belt be preserved?
This report outlines the preliminary findings of the Commission, concluding that if the UK is to meet the government’s housing target of 3 million new homes by 2020, it will have to build 1.8 million new houses on greenfield sites or the Green Belt and that the 3 million target is the minimum need to ease the UK’s overstretched housing market.
| Published: | 13 August 2007 |
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| Author: | Ann Rossiter |
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The Social Market and its Enemies: A new philosophy for Brown?
The Social Market and its Enemies: A new philosophy for Brown? explores the origins of the social market; how the social market view of the world has evolved since the foundation of the SMF; the enemies of the social market; and the characteristics that distinguish social marketeers.
| Published: | 11 May 2007 |
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| Author: | David Lipsey |
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Regulating by Values: Is a sustainable responsible lending policy required?
The SMF held a seminar in December 2006, which brought together some of the most important minds from within the sector to discuss whether a sustainable responsible lending policy is required in response to the difficulties over personal debt.
| Published: | 23 March 2007 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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The Regional Casinos Debate: Regeneration and responsible gambling in the UK
This publications, the result of a conference convened by the Social Market Foundation in July 2006, brings together some of the most expert and considered voices in the field to explore the contentious issues around the major themes dominating the regional casino debate.
| Published: | 15 October 2006 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |