Dr David G. Green

David Green is the chief executive of Civitas, which he founded in 2000. He writes occasionally for newspapers, including in recent years pieces in The Sunday Times, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph. He occasionally broadcasts on programmes such as Newsnight, the Moral Maze and the Today programme.

Education and career

Work

His books include:
Power and Party in an English City, Allen & Unwin, 1980
Mutual Aid or Welfare State, Allen & Unwin, 1984 (with L. Cromwell)
Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment, Temple Smith/Gower, 1985
The New Right: The Counter Revolution in Political, Economic and Social Thought, Wheatsheaf, 1987
Reinventing Civil Society, IEA, 1993
Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform, IEA, 1996
Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence, IEA, 1998
An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence, IEA, 1999
Delay, Denial and Dilution, IEA, 1999 (with Laura Casper)
Stakeholder Health Insurance, Civitas, 2000
Crime and Civil Society: Can we become a more law-abiding people?, Civitas, 2005
We're (Nearly) all Victims Now: how political correctness is undermining our liberal culture, Civitas, 2006
Individualists Who Co-operate: Education and welfare reform befitting a free people, Civitas, 2009
Prosperity With Principles: Some Policies For Economic Growth, Civitas, 2010

He contributed the chapter on 'The Neo-Liberal Perspective' in Blackwell's The Student's Companion to Social Policy (2nd ed, 2003).

He was a member of the Home Secretary's Crime Statistics Review Group, which in 2006 recommended improvements in the collection of the crime figures.

Selected feature articles 2008 - 2011:

• Five policies that would lead to growth
  - The Daily Telegraph, 7 March 2011
• Votes for prisoners: will MPs have the courage to vote for liberty?
  - The Daily Telegraph, 8 February 2011
• Competition could cure the banking sector
  - The Daily Telegraph, 21 December 2010
• David Cameron must back entrepreneurs to get us out of the debt crisis
  - The Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2010
• Adam Smith would stand by Vince Cable
  - The Daily Telegraph, 22 September 2010
• The Liberal Democrats are wrong about free schools
  - The Daily Telegraph, 20 September 2010
• Iain Duncan Smith is wrong about the benefits system
  - The Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2010
• Ministers need to grasp the real facts about crime
  - The Daily Telegraph, 17 July 2010
• We CAN cut costs in the NHS and it will help save lives
  - The Daily Mail, 29 June 2010
• Capital gains tax rises would punish the productive
  - The Daily Telegraph, 29 May 2010
• Taxpayer funding can really pick a winner by backing manufacturing
  - The Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2010
• Too many voters depend on the state for their income
  - The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2010
• David Cameron should realise that a small state isn't always the answer
  - The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2010
• David Cameron should empower consumers not workers
  - The Daily Telegraph, 15 April 2010
• Ali Dizaei: Time to arrest the grievance culture
  - The Daily Telegraph, 10 February 2010
• Compulsory savings contributions would soften the blow to the taxpayer
  - The Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2009
• Why school league tables must be kept but reformed
  - The Daily Telegraph, 23 November 2009
• At least someone in prison can't rob you'
  - The Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2009
• Fiona Pilkington case: Common humanity must be enough to be protected by police
  - The Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2009
• Equality loses out in battle of victim groups
  - The Sunday Telegraph, 26 July 2009
• MPs' expenses: How to fix parliament? Stop MPs being ministers
  - The Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2009
• The Equality Bill will hinder, not help
  - The Daily Telegraph, 11 May 2009
• The gender pay gap does not exist
  - The Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2009
• Failed public policies are to blame for the decline in manufacturing
  - The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2009
• Shareholders must feel empowered if the market is to survive
  - The Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2009
• If you want welfare, work for it
  - The Sunday Times, 9 November 2008
• Have a go? Not when you could be arrested
  - The Daily Telegraph, 2 September 2008
• Let every school be independent
  - The Sunday Times, 10 August 2008
• Prison works, so why won't we admit it?
  - The Times, 18 July 2008
• Talk of "excellence for all" is just Balls
  - The Spectator, 21 June 2008
• Faith in the Law: It's difficult to see how sharia councils could be integrated into the British legal system
  - Prospect, March 2008

Archive of feature articles 2001 - 2007

CLICK HERE for articles by David Green from 2001 - 2007.

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