David George Green (born 24 January 1951) is the chief executive of the British think tank
Civitas
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, which he founded in 2000. He is an author who also writes for British newspapers, including ''
The Times'', ''
The Sunday Times'', the ''
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Sunday Telegraph
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'' and ''
The Daily Telegraph'', and has 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 ''The Daily Telegraph'' news blogs.
Early life
Green 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.
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 to work as a Research Fellow at the
Australian National University in Canberra for the next two years. 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 the think tank
Civitas
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since 2000.
His book, ''Community Without Politics'' (London, IEA, 1997) was awarded the Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize in 1997. In 2004 he was voted one of Britain's top 100 British intellectuals by readers of ''
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'' magazine. In 2009 he was included on the ''
Evening Standards list of the 1,000 most influential Londoners. His 1993 book, ''Reinventing Civil Society'' has been translated into Chinese and Russian.
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, 'The Neo-Liberal Perspective' in ''The Student's Companion to Social Policy'' (2nd ed, Blackwell, 2003).
*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
References
External links
Civitas*
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1951 births
British male journalists
Living people
British chief executives
Alumni of Newcastle University
Academic staff of the Australian National University