- A mention of Social Policy Bonds occurs in a paper (88 page pdf file) entitled Information markets to improve policy, by Robert W Hahn, of the AEI-Brookings Center for Regulatory Studies, published in November 2004.
- Article in the National Business Review, New Zealand, based on an interview with me, on the Bond concept, by Rob Hosking (February 2001).
- An animated internet discussion of the Social Policy Bond concept took place on Nanodot in early 2001.
- In 1991 the Social Policy Bond concept won the award for Best Political Social Invention from the Institute of Social Inventions, UK - now the Global Ideas Bank. Click here to see the Global Ideas Bank's summary of the Social Policy Bonds concept.
Work by others on the Social Policy Bond concept
Many economists are intrigued. In early 1997 I received this letter from Professor Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, about the Social Policy Bond concept. He mentions Social Policy Bonds in his book The New Financial Order.
Chris Rasch has written an article about applying the Social Policy Bond idea to the funding of open source software development.
Will Ware thinks the Social Policy Bond idea could be applied to technological challenges, such as developing better batteries.
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