Social Policy Bonds blog: Social Policy Bonds: the book

14 March 2006

Social Policy Bonds: the book

I have finished updating a draft of my core text on Social Policy Bonds: Injecting incentives into the achievement of social and environmental outcomes. The first three chapters are available as a pdf file (254 kB) free of charge here. The basics of the Social Policy Bond mechanism are described in chapter 3. Comments are welcome. Having failed to interest mainstream publishers in the past, I will not try too energetically to get this book published, but I will make a final version available soon as an e-book from the Social Policy Bonds website. Anyone who has bought any of my books in the past is welcome to email me for the full text of the current update, free of charge. I will post the remaining chapters on this blog, so devoted readers will be able to pick up the entire text (40 000 words) at no cost. Any prospective publishers are also welcome to contact me directly.

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Social Policy Bonds in the media

13 June 2018: my short article Make Social Impact Bonds Tradeable, appears on the website of Alliance, a magazine for philanthropy and social investment.

25 May 2018: a short article on Social Policy Bonds and their possible application in India, appears on Market Express (India). It is by Dr Ashok V Desai and titled Incentivizing welfare.

9 October 2015: An article by Greg Bearup on the genesis of the Social Policy Bond idea, and application of a version of it in Australia appears in the Weekend Australian Magazine. (The article can also be downloaded as a pdf from here.)

October 2013: Professor Robert Shiller of Yale University, is named as one of the three winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics. His Nobel Prize lecture (pdf) delivered on 8 December, mentions Social Policy Bonds. Professor Shiller has for many years encouraged my work on Social Policy Bonds, beginning in late 1996 when he sent me this letter.

3 May 2012: An audio talk by Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Shiller at the London School of Economics, in which Social Policy Bonds are briefly mentioned, is available here.

18 April 2012: Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, mentions Social Policy Bonds in his new book Finance and the Good Society. He also mentions the concept in a Huffington Post article. It's the eighth of his Ten Ways Finance Can Be a Force for Good in Society, and is also mentioned in a short profile piece about Professor Shiller.