Report indicates that 'new' welfare reforms hark back to Victorians
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 09:30
in Psychology & Sociology
The UK coalition government's planned NHS and welfare reforms, and their use of 'nudge' theory, hark back to ideas on welfare and recession from the end of the nineteenth century, according to studies by a University of Leicester historian whose research paper has recently been published in the Lancet.