Articles about ukpublicspending.co.uk’s data
by Christopher Chantrill
The articles below provide to researchers background information on the spending data used at ukpublicspending.co.uk.
Topics covered include data sources, update schedules, projections of future spending.
Derivation of UK Public Spending for 1900 - 1950 08/02/08
How We Got the Spending Data for ukpublicspending.co.uk 08/01/08
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Democratic Capitalism
Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets
and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Government Expenditure
The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America