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Eva Cox: put the big society (back) on the agenda

Crikey / Eva Cox / Thursday, 9 December 2010

Can we retrieve and renew the idea that we live in a society, and it’s the qualities of how we live with each other than makes life good?

Celebrating Obama’s socialist budget

The Daily Beast / Thursday, 7 May 2009

Embracing the European-style welfare state will improve life in the US across the board, says Matthew Yglesias.

John Quiggin: The risk society, part four

Crikey / Tuesday, 31 July 2007

In the fourth part of a serialised paper first published by the Centre for Policy Development, University of Queensland economist John Quiggin writes that an improved understanding of risk can contribute to the development of a modernised social democratic model.

John Quiggin: The Risk Society, part two

Crikey / Tuesday, 24 July 2007

In the second part of a serialised paper first published by the Centre for Policy Development, University of Queensland economist John Quiggin writes that an improved understanding of risk can contribute to the development of a modernised social democratic model.

John Quiggin: The risk society, part one

Crikey / Monday, 23 July 2007

“Risk” may be a central idea of the early 21st century, just as “globalisation” was the dominant idea of the 1990s. The fact that individuals and families are vulnerable to a wide range of social, economic and other risks - and that collective action is needed to help reduce and manage these risks - has long been an important theme in social-democratic thinking.