Over the years since I started this blog I’ve published hundreds of posts comprising hundreds of thousands of words.
But I’m conscious that not everyone is hugely keen on consuming their reading material online. And even in the world of always-on broadband and 3G – soon to be 4G – smartphones there are occasions and situations in which online material is not easily accessible.
So I am also making thematic collections of selected posts available for download.
New for April 2013
The policy con is on: Welfare and workfare in Cameron’s Britain
This book brings together a collection of the essays focusing on the Coalition Government’s welfare reform agenda that I have posted on my blog since July 2010. It covers social security reform, housing benefit changes, workfare, poverty, the minimum wage, and the divisiveness of the Government’s policy narratives around “welfare”. The essays are arranged chronologically, tracing the agenda as it has developed.
The policy con is on is available free to download in pdf format here. Or you can access it below via Scribd.com.
The Policy Con Is On: Welfare and workfare in Cameron’s Britain by Alex Marsh
February 2013
Travels through Coalitionland: Notes of disquiet and dissent
This book contains a selection of the essays that I have blogged since July 2010. The essays focus on coalition politics, the role of the Liberal Democrats within the coalition, and the way in which Liberal Democrat policy and practice appears to be evolving. Many of the original posts were triggered by specific political developments, but they tend to be framed in terms of broader issues, values and principles. Many of the essays are critical of contemporary political developments. The essays are arranged chronologically. They therefore offer a guide, albeit a very loose and imperfect guide, to aspects of the coalition’s evolution.
Travels through Coalitionland is available free to download here in pdf format. Or you can access it below via Scribd.com.
Travels through Coalitionland: Notes of disquiet and dissent by Alex Marsh
December 2012
Marginal Notes: Offline essays in economics and policy
Can the Government privatise large swathes of the public sector with no adverse consequences? Why didn’t economists see the Global Financial Crisis coming? Did economics contribute to the crash? Why is it difficult to punish corporations that avoid tax? Is economics capable of reforming itself? And how are local bus markets like the Wild West?
These are some of the topics that feature in this collection of 18 essays on economics and policy. It touches on microeconomics, macroeconomics and the philosophy, methodology and ethics of economics. It also links economics to a broader political economy.
Marginal Notes is available free to download here in pdf format. Or you can access it below via Scribd.com.
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