ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BEN SPIES-BUTCHER
Ben teaches Economy and Society and is Discipline Chair of Sociology in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. He is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, a collaboration between the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, the School of Social and Political Science at Sydney University and the Crawford School at ANU. Ben’s research focuses on the political economy of social policy and the welfare state, particularly how economic and political change shape social policy financing. His current research explores how financial logics common in the private sector are reshaping social policy through changes in public sector budgeting, and the potential for these changes to open new opportunities for egalitarian social provision. You can follow Ben on twitter via @SensibleBSB.
2018
Two birds with one stone. How better taxing super could fund aged care
The new politics of financialised social policy: re-thinking HECS
2017
The strange accounting behind the proposed HECS changes
2016
Social Service Futures: what is productivity?
A first step on negative gearing, but not much more
Social policy whisperer: Reimagining NSW: how the care economy could help unclog our cities
Changing home ownership and growing inequality
2015
Social Policy Whisperer: could a new 'basic income' protect Australia's most vulnerable?
Tax is back on the agenda and you might be surprised about a new alliance
Social Policy Whisperer: reclaiming the economy
Social Policy Whisperer: a new politics in social policy?
Social Policy Whisperer: eroding Medicare by stealth? Indexation and the decline of public provision