observed too much social waste in the 30s and gave it up to pursue social
policy ...
--On 12 March 2013 12:58 +0000 "Bartley, Mel" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Richard Titmuss was at one time an actuary as a matter of fact....
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> Subject: Re: Demos think tank on 'responsiblity'
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> Interesting. The document seems to be saying that social policy can learn
> a lot from the insurance industry. Now that may or may be the case, but
> might be more convincing if it didn't come from research sponsored by and
> in some cases run by....Zurich. If you have a hammer, do you just see the
> world as nails?
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> Ian
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> Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 11:40
> Subject: Re: Demos think tank on 'responsiblity'
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> Sue,
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> Thanks. This is really interesting. I see that it is funded by Zurich,
> which says it is keen to encourage 'personal responsibility' for health.
> No doubt this entirely 'transcends the short-term drivers of political
> and profit gain' (p10), as Zurich put it in their Foreword.
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> I see that Demos is funded by quite a lot of finance/accounting industry
> corporations including (in 2011) Lloyds, Unum, Deloitte, PWC, Prudential
> and Deutsche Bank.
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> Is there anyone else on the list that is interested in think tanks and
> how they relate to social policy issues?
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> I would be interested to hear from you....
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> Best
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> David Miller
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> On 12 Mar 2013, at 11:01, sue christoforou wrote:
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> Hello all
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> I thought this might be of interest to list members.
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> Best,
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> Sue
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Dr Christopher Deeming
Senior Research Fellow
Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol, UK
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