Policy – Professor Graham Squires

Policy Transfer: Why do we see the same ideas and practice around the world? – 5 Key Aspects

[1300 Words; 10 Minute Read]. The post explores what is involved and could be considered when transferring policy from one context to another. At the

Towards Financial Risk and Housing Policy Trends

Institutions providing access to housing in all tenures have become further entrenched and exposed to financial risk. Literature on housing policy trends and financial risk

Improving water quality with rural land use policy: (re)balancing farmland regulation, intensification and financial viability

Policymakers in New Zealand are attempting to achieve improved environmental outcomes by implementing an output-based approach to non-point-source

Is Building Heritage in Enterprise Zones The Latest Threat or Opportunity?

In considering heritage for buildings within Enterprise Zones, the central premise has been focusing on economic growth, with less thought given to the wider structural and cultural

Returning to Rousseau – Is there a Contract Between Citizen and State?

New forms of governance, conditional approaches to public service access, and initiatives to engage citizens in taking on new responsibilities

Lessons need to be learned from Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones

There is a need to learn lessons when using spatially targeted fiscal experiments if intervention is to generate wider developmental benefit. For Enterprise Zone concept

Influential books #94 In defense of housing by Peter Marcuse and David Madden

Arguing the case for housing as needing radical political and economic attention

Influential books #88 Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Important text from the 20th century that unpicks earlier pure logic work, to identify the complexity of language that form the basis of most philosophical

Influential books #79 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham

From the father of utilitarianism this text sets the new legal thinking on societal motivations and intentions

Influential books #77 An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

Set over four books, this leading text of the enlightenment covers nurture, experience/reflection, language, and the limits of knowledge.

Influential books #75 The order of things by Michel Foucault

Postmodern thinking on taxonomies, in that structures are set within the parameters of their own historical epistemological norms such as scientific discourse. Subtitled the ‘Archaeology

Influential books #73 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes

Famous for macroeconomic thinking on the positives of fiscal intervention as counter-cyclical to peaks and troughs in growth.

Influential books #72 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

In erring towards science over faith, this book places an importance on realising the human limits of understanding in physical and mental reasoning.

Influential books #68 The social contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Beyond the idea of the monarchy making legislative decisions, the social contract progresses to argue an allocation of power by the people.

Influential books #65 Constructions of neoliberal reason by Jamie Peck

Compelling historical critique of the neoliberal project of free(er) markets that has dominated contemporary thinking and practice.

Influential books #54 Housing policy and economic power by Michael Ball

A political economy look at owner-occupation at the turn of the 21st century