The Acton Institute's three-volume series on the Foundations of Economic Personalism contributes much to the dialogue between theology and economics. This article, however, identifies a number of shortcomings. These include an overly individualistic bias and a reliance on the Austrian school of...

This essay continues a dialogue concerning the problems that Christian personalism will face in efforts to work with the Chicago, Public Choice, and Austrian Schools of economics. These problems ought not be dismissed as recognizable only out of a theological concern, as they are addressed in...

Recent British welfare reform involves the creation of a managed welfare market for the delivery of employment programmes. This article critically reviews evidence on the development and impacts of such markets in Australia, the USA and the Netherlands. It considers the emergence of problems...

This study assesses the context and development of the British NMW and the evidence of its impact. The study outlines the earlier system of Wages Councils, abolished in 1993 as part of the British Conservative Government's policy that, from the early 1980s, had deregulated much of the British...

Die britische Jobseeker's Allowance erinnert stark an die künftige "Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende", ist aber mit umgerechnet 359 € für alleinstehende Erwachsene etwas höher. Das derzeitige Leistungssystem wurde von konservativen Regierungen geschaffen und von New Labour strukturell...