User:David Green Civitas/sandbox

User:David Green Civitas/sandbox

David G. Green (born 1951) is the chief executive of Civitas, which he founded in 2000. He has written occasionally for newspapers, including The Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph, and taken part in broadcast programmes such as Newsnight, the Moral Maze and Today. He has made occasional contributions to the Guardian’s Comment is Free site. And he has contributed pieces to Daily Telegraph news blogs.

Early Life
He was born in Thetford England in 1951 and brought up in Norfolk and Lancashire. He attended the state-run boarding grammar school, Wymondham College, from 1962 until 1969 and worked in manufacturing industry for a few months before going to university.

Education and Career
He was an undergraduate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1970 to 1973 and remained there for his PhD. He was a Labour councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1976 until 1981 before leaving the UK from 1981 to 1983 to work as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. He worked at the Institute of Economic Affairs from 1984, and was Director of its Health and Welfare Unit from 1986 to 2000. He has been the chief executive of Civitas from 2000 to the current day.

His work has received some public recognition. His book, Community Without Politics (London, IEA, 1997) was awarded the Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Prize in 1997. In 2004 he was voted one of Britain’s top 100 British intellectuals by readers of Prospect Magazine. And in 2009 he was included on the Evening Standard’s list of the 1,000 most influential Londoners.

Main Publications

 * Green, David, Power and Party in an English City, Allen & Unwin, 1980
 * Green, David and Cromwell, Larry, Mutual Aid or Welfare State, Allen & Unwin, 1984
 * Green, David, Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment, Temple Smith/Gower, 1985
 * Green, David, The New Right: The Counter Revolution in Political, Economic and Social Thought, Wheatsheaf, 1987
 * Green, David, Reinventing Civil Society, IEA, 1993
 * Green, David, Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform, IEA, 1996
 * Green, David, Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence, IEA, 1998
 * Green, David, An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence, IEA, 1999
 * Green, David and Casper, Laura, Delay, Denial and Dilution, IEA, 1999
 * Green, David, Stakeholder Health Insurance, Civitas, 2000
 * Green, David, Grove, Emma and Martin, Nadia, Crime and Civil Society: Can we become a more law-abiding people?, Civitas, 2005
 * Green, David, We're (Nearly) all Victims Now: how political correctness is undermining our liberal culture, Civitas, 2006
 * Green, David, Individualists Who Co-operate: Education and welfare reform befitting a free people, Civitas, 2009
 * Green, David, Prosperity With Principles: Some Policies For Economic Growth, Civitas, 2010
 * Green, David, 'The Neo-Liberal Perspective' in The Student's Companion to Social Policy (2nd ed, Blackwell, 2003).