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	Research programme :: SMF Social Market Foundation :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This represents an important victory for social market thinking and provides us with the opportunity to influence policy development within all three parties and to hold them to account as to whether they are meeting the ideals of the social market.
		But a social market approach to these issues also means championing an engaged state and an effective social safety net in the interests of a socially cohesive and just society.
		Past SMF research has advocated the importation of market incentives into public service monopoly systems; in particular the replacement of command and control structures by quasi-markets and the use of performance management techniques and incentives for staff.
	www.smf.co.uk /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=16&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1299 words)

	Social market economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The social market economy was the main economic model used in Western and Northern Europe during the Cold War era.
		An important part of social market economies is the tri-partite talks between labour unions, employers' organizations (the social partners) and the state in which they strike agreements on issues like price levels, wage increases, tax rates and pension entitlements.
		From the 1960s, the social market economy was the main economic model in mainland Western Europe, pursued by administrations of both the centre right (usually led by Christian Democratic parties) and the centre left (usually led by Labour or Social Democratic parties).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_market_economy (613 words)

	Social Market Foundation \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		The Social Market Foundation was established to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas.
		The Social Market Foundation was founded on the ideal incorporated in its name: the "social market".
		This SMF Commission will assess what we have learned from the target setting and audit regime of the last few years and make recommendations for the types of targets that are useful and the appropriate authorities for audit and inspection.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /thinktanks/page/0,,715480,00.html (733 words)

	Social Watch : Evaluation
		A unique quality of Social Watch is the sheer diversity of organizing initiatives at the national level used to strengthen civil society and NGO capacity to monitor and hold governments accountable.
		The activities of Social Watchers at the national level are conditioned by the existing political climate, the relationships between government and civil society, the capacity of organizations and the existence of fora for effective advocacy work.
		While Social Watchers maintain that their relationship with the secretariat has been extremely beneficial, issues of accountability, representation, regional and linguistic diversity, and funding should be examined given the growing participation of NGOs in Social Watch.
	www.socialwatch.org /en/acercaDe/eval1sumario.htm (2069 words)

	Research in the Social Marketing Process - Planning
		In social marketing, key sources of information include technical and professional journals; national public opinion polls, health and consumer surveys; past coverage of the issue in newspapers, trade journals and consumer magazines; census statistics and other demographic surveys; government health departments; radio and television stations and local advertising agencies and market research firms.
		Focus groups are used often throughout the social marketing process, from the planning stages to development and refinement of the message and materials.
		After identifying the key media vehicles for the campaign, social marketers must research and understand the media gatekeepers at these vehicles who are most important to their program.
	www.social-marketing.com /plan.html (1889 words)

	The Greying of the Conservative Idea: Freedom and the Social Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The idea of an unregulated market economy — and of the free society in which it operates and upon which it is dependent — originated in the theory of a spontaneous social order first developed by the classical-liberal thinkers of the late 18th century.
		The theory, simply put, holds that the social arrangements under which we live are of such a high order of complexity that they invariably take their form not from deliberate calculation, but as the unintended consequence of countless human actions, many of which may be the result of instinct and habit.
		This theory of the nature of society and the evolution of the social institutions into which each generation of men is born, is raised, chooses, acts, and works emphasizes the societal context in which the human being lives, values, and functions.
	www.fff.org /freedom/1094b.asp (1975 words)

	Social Market Foundation 17 April 2002 Taking opportunities - promoting competition in broadband and other services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The level of market power should be regularly reviewed and in markets where competition is effective regulation should be removed.
		Where market power is entrenched, markets are relatively mature, and there is little prospect of effective competition in the short-medium term, prices should be set on cost-based terms.
		But, you may ask 'how does the strategy work in tough capital market conditions particularly for competitors to the incumbent?' The stock market has undoubtedly been a roller-coaster over the past couple of years and Oftel is definitely not in the business of forecasting share prices.
	www.ofcom.org.uk /static/archive/oftel/press/speeches/smf0402.htm (3051 words)

	Book Review - Post-Communist Societies in Transition: A Social Market Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Professor Gray also emphasized Hayek's criticisms of social or distributive justice, in which Hayek explained that all government redistributive schemes are arbitrary and harmful to the prosperity of the society as a whole.
		All three of these foundational principles for peace and liberty, in terms of their specific institutional forms, will, to some extent, bear the mark of the histories and traditions of the countries in which they are reestablished.
		But whether people peacefully and voluntarily arrange their social and market relationships on more "communal" or "individualistic" lines will be determined by the actions of the people themselves, based on their cultural preferences and the opportunities for mutual gains from trade.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0694f.asp (1122 words)

	Developing Engineers as Leaders in Industry - Sainsbury Management Fellows' Society
		The SMF scheme, which is administered by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), provides a bursary to talented young engineers with leadership potential to study for a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) at internationally renowned business schools.
		Upon successful completion of the MBA, the engineers become a member of the SMF Society, which provides a range of benefits including networking, courses, mentoring, plus careers support.
		To obtain more information about the SMF Scheme please contact Cathleen Breeze or call on 020 8941 8584.
	www.smf.org.uk (194 words)

	The Actuarial Foundation
		The truth is, today's Social Security system can pay full retirement benefits well into the next century — but unless changes are made soon, the system's long-term future is in jeopardy.
		But today, reports of a Social Security "crisis" lead many workers to believe the system will "go broke" by the time they or their children retire.
		Social Security benefits are based on your lifetime earnings and rise with increases in the cost of living.
	www.actuarialfoundation.org /consumer/soc_broc.htm (1105 words)

	Social Marketing Institute - Success Stories - Stop Aids
		The program was evaluated from the onset using both qualitative and quantitative measurements; and because it was often not possible to measure individual campaign segments, the evaluation included a variety of the elements affecting protective behavior including the attitude and level of awareness of the general population and targeted groups.
		Increased condom sales: Observed changes in the market for condoms, the central focus of the campaign, was one of the key factors used to measure the program's impact on the population.
		After systematic market observation of the manufacturers supplying at least 80 percent of condoms in Switzerland, results indicated that between 1986 and 1990, condom sales had increased by 80 percent (from 7.6 million to 15 million units).
	www.social-marketing.org /success/cs-stopaids.html (1731 words)

	The Skoll Foundation \| Background on Social Entrepreneurship \| Background on Social Entrepreneurship
		Despite this difference, social entrepreneurs are just as innovative and change oriented as their business counterparts, searching for new and better ways to solve the problems that plague society.
		As a result, social entrepreneurs must be exceptionally skilled at mustering and mobilizing human, financial and political resources.
		Today, social entrepreneurs are working in many countries to create avenues for independence and opportunity for those who otherwise would be locked into lives without hope.
	www.skollfoundation.org /aboutsocialentrepreneurship/index.asp (801 words)

	Centre for the New Europe - Europe's Leading Brussels-based Free Market Think Tank
		A new conservative-liberal foundation based in The Hague, based on the political philosophy of Burke, an English thinker who had a significant political impact on 19th century Holland.
		The ILK Foundation is an independent organisation, dedicated to educating the public in Poland on the free-market.
		The Lithuanian Free Market Institute is an independent non-profit organisation established in 1990 to advance the ideas of individual freedom and responsibility, free market and limited government.
	www.cne.org /links2.htm (1098 words)

	Social Marketing Institute - About Us
		Social marketing is the use of commercial marketing concepts and tools in programs designed to influence individuals' behavior to improve their well being and that of society.
		Planning for the Social Marketing Institute began September 1, 1999 with a significant grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
		The Social Marketing Institute can be a powerful ally for those corporations, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and foundations that seek to achieve important social objectives as part of their basic missions.
	www.social-marketing.org /aboutus.html (606 words)

	Research in the Social Marketing Process
		These are determined through market research methods that aim to learn as much about the target audience and how it thinks, feels and behaves in relation to the issue the program is addressing.
		The process of developing a social marketing program involves research at every stage, with constant reevaluation to assess whether the program is on track.
		To create an effective social marketing program, you must understand the problem you are addressing, the audiences you are targeting, and the environment in which the program will operate.
	www.social-marketing.com /process.html (577 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Social Security Works"
		To receive most Social Security retirement benefits, a person must be "fully insured," which simply means that he or she has worked for a long enough time and has put enough money into the system.
		Current fears about a Social Security crisis are based on two reports, one by the Social Security Trustees and another, more optimistic report by the Congressional Budget Office.
		He wants to allow people to put some of their Social Security payments (up to 4 percent) into privately held accounts that would be invested in the stock market.
	www.howstuffworks.com /social-security.htm/printable (2539 words)

	Social Market Foundation - SourceWatch
		According to its website: "The SMF was established in 1989 to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas.
		The Social Market Foundation organised a wide range of fringe talks at the 2004 Labour Party conference.
		Nick Mathiason, "The marketing of Blairism", The Observer, 31 July 2005.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Social_Market_Foundation (375 words)

	Social Market Foundation Review, London, 15 August 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Preoccupied with the ‘state’, with privatisation of its property and marketisation of the command economy, the reforms were not oriented to (or did not ensure an adequate transformation of) customary law, civic responsibilities and civil justice, ‘which always had been alien concepts in Russia.’
		Networks of mutual help and informal exchange developed under the Soviet regime outside the state and the market domain cannot be considered as embryonic forms of the civil society because of their exploitative nature and parasitic use of state property.
		As a result, legal foundations of the market system (including anti-monopolist regulation) are not established, and market instruments, such as competition, minority shareholders’ rights and property rights, do not work.
	www.colbud.hu /honesty-trust/ledeneva/pub02.htm (1036 words)

	Social Security Privatization in Britain: Key Lessons for America's Reformers
		Based on 1994-1995 estimates, the Department of Social Security reports that personal pension plans have appealed generally to workers with modest incomes, that 60 percent of persons enrolled in these plans were under 30 years of age, and that 37 percent were women.
		The basic problem confronting Social Security is not disputed by anyone: The simple demographic reality is that the ratio of workers to retirees will have fallen from a ratio of 20:1 in 1950 (and 3:1 in 1990) to a ratio of 2:1 by about 2025 or 2030.
		Social Security Department Report: The Government's Expenditure Plans 1997-1999, presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security and Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Command of Her Majesty, March 1966, p.
	www.heritage.org /Research/SocialSecurity/BG1133.cfm (16359 words)

	Amazon.ca: Foundation: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy.
		Edward Gibbon's influence is certainly obvious in "Foundation." A galactic empire, centered in Trantor (a celestial Rome), is on the verge of collapse.
		Yet "Foundation" is hardly a history lesson; Asimov simply channeled his understanding of medieval and Renaissance Europe into a series of intriguing stories, what might instead be described as "psychohistorical" and sociopolitical thrillers.
	www.amazon.ca /Foundation-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293354 (1733 words)

	Social Security Debate
		Ownership and choice were the foundation for the conservative position in the debate.
		Both Certner and Shelton defended Social Security in its current form as what Certner called “a program that is loved by the American people.” Rather than argue for reform, both speakers advocated more protection for the program.
		He explained that the tax increase would harm economic growth and called the plan to have the government investing in the markets “a frightening idea.” “That is actually the definition of socialism,” said Toomey.
	www.freemarketproject.org /news/2005/news20050616.asp (917 words)

	Social Market Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Social Market Foundation is a think tank based in the UK.
		The SMF was established 'to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas.' The organisation has no formal links with political parties, although it was described as John Major's favourite think-tank during his time in Downing Street.
		Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook delivered his 'Chicken Tikka Masala' speech at the SMF meeting on the 19th August 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Market_Foundation (233 words)

	The Stock Market Bubble and Investing Social Security in the Stock Market
		Since the stock market was experiencing an unsustainable bubble over much of this period, the failure to consider this timing could have produced large losses to workers or the trust fund.
		Since Social Security works from a fixed set of projections where there is an assumed path for profit growth, the process of deriving projections of stock returns from the components is quite straightforward, as has been shown.
		The losses implied by the collapse of the U.S. stock market bubble would not be quite as large, but these workers should nonetheless not be subjected to the risk of investing in a bubble simply because of the failure of the Social Security Administration to do its job.
	www.cepr.net /publications/social_security_2002_07.htm (2197 words)

	Social Market Foundation Report
		Efforts to widen participation in education are narrowly focused on transitions at sixteen and eighteen, such as the creation of a university Access Regulator.
		Given current constraints in the public finances and competing priorities for investment, a reallocation of spending would provide the additional investment needed to offer all children under five access to the affordable, high quality services that will give them the best start in school.
		A strong foundation for learning in the preschool years can then be built on in primary and secondary school, with the effect of improving attainment at sixteen.
	www.literacytrust.org.uk /talktoyourbaby/smf.html (575 words)

	Talking Points About Women, Social Security and Privatization
		Social Security is Guaranteed Retirement Income—Social Security is a bare-bones retirement benefit, providing about $190,000 to retired women workers throughout their retirement years.
		The Social Security Trust Fund is viable through 2043; minor adjustments to the program such as raising the ceiling on taxable wages would guarantee solvency into the next century.
		Social Security Benefits will be Cut Under the President's Proposal—The Bush administration favors a plan that would shift the calculation of retirement benefits currently tied to wage increases to one that would be tied to a price index.
	www.now.org /issues/economic/social/030405points.html (1427 words)

	Social Capitalist Awards 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When people have access to affordable credit and are able to lift themselves out of poverty, everyone wins- small farmers increase their savings, children are better educated, elderly and other vulnerable populations are protected from homelessness, neighborhoods recover from crime and degradation, and economies become healthier, safer and more stable for all.
		Calvert Foundation has identified a need for flexible investment capital among non-profits and social enterprises, and has reached out to investors and financial professionals as a critical new audience to address poverty here in the US and around the globe.
		Over the past 10 years, Calvert Foundation has recycled more than $250 million in investments that have helped to create more than 119,000 jobs for low income individuals, built or rehabilitated 6,600 affordable homes, and financed more than 6,900 nonprofit facilities, including daycare centers, community health clinics, and schools.
	www.fastcompany.com /social/2006/statements/calvert-social.html (650 words)

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