Introduction

Contributors

PART ONE: ON PROBLEMS OF TRANSITION

1 The School, the Future and the Social Sciences

JOHN M. ASHWORTH

2 The Transition from Socialism to a Market Economy

NICHOLAS BARR

3 Preventing Long-term Unemployment

RICHARD LAYARD

4 The Resurgence of Nationalism?

ANTHONY D. SMITH

5 New Visions of Welfare

JULIAN LE GRAND

6 The Bridge that Failed: The changing distribution of income and wealth in the UK

JOHN R. HILLS

7 Poverty in Context - New Thoughts on Old Themes

BRIAN ABEL-SMITH

8 Crime and Media

ROBERT REINER

PART TWO: THOUGHTS FROM HOUGHTON STREET

9 Popper's Legacy

JOHN WORRALL

10 Machiavelli and the Duck/Rabbit Problem of Political Perception

KENNETH MINOGUE

11 What's Happened to Administrative Theories?

PETER SELF

12 You Don't Get Marxsts in Fundamental Boots: A Comparative exploration of the presentation of self as implicit religion

EILEEN BARKER

13 Economic Growth and Domestic Refuse in London

RALPH TURVEY

14 Environment Questions

YVONE RYDIN

15 LSE and Economic Thinking

PAUL A. VOLCKER

Index