To mark its 21st year, the Social Market Foundation commissioned essays by leading politicians, academics and journalists on social market policy in a period of sustained economic crisis.
Philip Collins served as director of the SMF and as speechwriter for Tony Blair. In this essay, Collins defines three pillars upon which the social market philosophy stands: markets are 'social organisms'; the 'thin line' between politics and markets make
Ten years has passed since the publications of Osborne and Gaebler’s landmark book Reinventing Government. Thus, in 2004, the Social Market Foundation published a reflection on the ten principles for entrepreneurial government that it set out.
