This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components - self-reflection, active decision-making, and quality and range of options - and investigates empirical inequalities in autonomy, using newly-collected data for the UK. 'Choice' has been promoted in social...

[…]. - 1 Displacement economies: paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa / Amanda Hammar. - 2 Securing livelihoods: economic practice in the Darfur-Chad borderlands / Andrea Behrends. - 3 Contested spaces, new opportunities: displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal...

This paper analyses the Government's proposals contained in A New Contract for Welfare: Partnership in Pensions. It examines the position of low paid workers and the potential of the proposals to protect individuals from means-tested old age. The paper identifies that the Green Paper's proposals...