ESRC Society Today

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Editorial

• Practical men and policy ideas  

Features

• How to be a minister - get some training!  

In the Workplace

• Creating creative clusters
• More questions than answers on productivity
• Happy workforces are productive workforces  

Concept of the Moment

• Generational accounting  

An idea that changed my business

• Green purchasing  

Connecting with...

• The history man - Malcolm Bradbury  

Research news

• Can we afford to retire?
• Doing business in China
• How high a price for roads?
• Retailers can relax - Britons have a social need to shop
• The wrong sort of rail subsidies
• More money than financial sense
• Elected mayors - a plea for independence
• Tax disharmony
• Women should worry about sticky floors, not glass ceilings
• Whose voters suffer if health inequalities remain?  

News in brief

• A selection of new ESRC-funded research