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As we approach the most important general election in a generation we have produced our Events Themes - Manifesto document setting our plans for events for the end of 2009 and into 2010.
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To discuss working with the SMF in the coming months please contact David Furness or Will Hoyles on 020 7222 7060 or email dfurness@smf.co.uk
In response to the unemployment figures announced today, the Social Market Foundation is warning that the primary focus on the rise in youth unemployment is misguided and excessive. This leads to policy responses that focus on the young to the exclusion of other unemployed people. - Read more...
During the 2009 party conference the SMF filmed our keynote events. Below is a compilation of highlights from all three events
Click the link to view extended highlights of the individual events. - Read more...The SMF is looking to add to our successful team with a new Finance and Operations Manager and a Conference Manager. These exciting and challenging roles are central to our work.
For more details please visit the Job Oportunities section of the site. - Read more...
08.45-10.00, Wednesday 25th November 2009
Social Market Foundation, 11 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QB
This seminar will explore the ways in which behavioural economics theory may both explain non take-up of CTFs by parents, and provide potential pointers toward increasing parental engagement. The seminar will explore issues of inertia, advice and information, and draw upon focus groups with parents that explored barriers to the usage of CTFs.
17.30-19.00, Thursday 26th November 2009
Social Market Foundation, 11 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QB
It would have been inconceivable even six months ago, but the following statement is now true: the CEO of Goldman Sachs and the Chairman of the FSA are united in believing that much banking activity of the last decade was socially useless. Lending and deposit taking by banks - credit intermediation - is clearly essential for the functioning of the economy. But in the analysis of the credit bubble that exploded in 2007, a growing number of stakeholders across the banking sector now believe that a significant proportion of the activities of major banking institutions make negligible or limited contribution to the "real economy".
Why are we are no happier than we once were? Should raising well-being be the aim of government? This book brings together celebrated academics and commentators to look for answers in the work of earlier thinkers, from JS Mill to JK Galbraith.
Richard Reeves, Liam Halligan, Will Hutton, Kevin Hickson and Marina Bianchi examine the arguments of their chosen theorists. Lord Richard Layard, the best known contemporary advocate for government action in this area, concludes by giving his own take on why government should put well-being at the centre of its agenda. Read more...