Social Policy Bonds
Blog URL http://socialgoals.com/blog/blog.html
Located Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand
Tags social policy, environmental policy, market incentives, economics, finance, climate change, social outcomes, environmental outcomes
Social Policy Bonds: policy as if outcomes mattered. This blog takes a look at current policymaking, and how Social Policy Bonds could improve it.
Latest Blog Posts
- The corruption of scientific research on Nov 19, 2009
A scary article by Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley in the New Scientist. Their organization, Scientists for Global Responsibility has looked at impact of commerce on science and technology over the past 20 years: Over the past two decades, governm...
- The policy monoculture on Nov 15, 2009
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reports on the subsidies, worth US$285 billion, given to OECD farmers in 2008: Support is becoming increasingly conditioned by requirements on producers to follow certain production practice...
- Ending war on Nov 13, 2009
I'm pleased that someone else shares my belief that we can, and should aim to, end war. Gordon Fellman is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. Here is a link to a talk he gives entitled Ceasefire: the case for ending war. Some, though not a...
- England: 1381 on Nov 10, 2009
Writing in History Today, Dan Jones describes England at the time of the 'summer of blood' in the year 1381. This was the Peasants' Revolt, when the lower classes, emboldened by the labour shortages that resulted from the Black Death, flexed their mu...
- Q+As on Nov 8, 2009
My correspondent (see previous post) goes on to ask some further questions:If the opportunity exists to commercialise social goals, who are the players? Who are the players for it? Who are the players against it?...players for it...? Anyone sinc...
- The private sector and social goals on Nov 8, 2009
A correspondent asks: According to the laws of economics if there was a potential gain for private enterprise in targeting social goals, they would have addressed it by now. If the opportunity exists, what was holding back the development of such a c...
- Heading for Disaster: Copenhagen and climate change on Nov 6, 2009
I've updated my article on Climate Stability Bonds to reflect the latest lack of progress.-- Policy as if outcomes mattered SocialGoals.com...
