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Only highlights since the year 2000 are given here. This update 9 March 2010
9 March 2010: the Social Policy Bonds blog has changed address. It can now be found here.
17 May 2009: the Social Policy Bonds blog is now available on Kindle for a small monthly subscription.
6 January 2006: Mike Linksvayer nominated the Social Policy Bonds blog as his best policy blog of 2005.
16 November 2005: an article about Climate Stability Bonds appeared in the New Zealand Herald, Auckland. (A slightly updated version appeared on 13 December in the Dominion Post, Wellington.)
29 January 2005: my letter about applying Social Policy Bonds to the eradication of third world poverty appears in the online edition of the Economist.
1 July 2003: Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, included a reference to Social Policy Bonds in his new book The New Financial Order. He also included a link to Social Policy Bonds, with other links of interest, on his web page for readers of the book.
On 28 February 2003 I presented a paper on Climate Stability Bonds to a conference organised by the Institute of Public Affairs, in Melbourne. Click here to see my Powerpoint presentation (ten frames).
September 2002: the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, published Better than Kyoto: Climate Stability Bonds; an article about applying the bond concept to climate change.
April 2002: I presented a paper on the application of the Social Policy Bond concept to the environment to a meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. The accompanying 11-frame Powerpoint presentation can be found here.
September 2000: the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, published Injecting incentives into the solution of social problems, in its journal Economic Affairs. Earlier that year I gave a talk about Social Policy Bonds at the Institute.