Reading List

Intergenerational Justice – The Basics

• House of Lords Library (2020) – Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Committee report
• Krznaric, Roman (2020) – The Good Ancestor: How to think Long Term in a Short-Term World
• Minouche Shakif (2021) What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract
• Tozer, Thomas (2019) – A New Intergenerational Contract: Intergenerational justice in principle and practice
• Intergenerational Justice Review
• Future Generations Commissioner for Wales – Well-being of Future Generations  (Wales) Act 2015
• OECD (2020) – Governance for Youth, Trust and Intergenerational Justice: Fit for All Generations?
• Howker, Ed and Malik, Shiv (2013) – Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth
• Thompson, Dennis (2010) – Representing Future Generations
• Frischmann, Brett (2005) – Some Thoughts on Shortsigthtedness and Intergenerational Equity
• Partridge, Ernest (1990) – On the Rights of Future Generations
• Revkin, Arnest (2007) – Does the Future Need a Legal Guardian?
• UNESCO (1997) – Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations Towards Future Generations
• Schools’ Factsheets 
• Fisher, Richard  (2023) – The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time

• UK Parliament (2021) – Challenges of an Ageing Population
• House of Lords Select Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change (2013) – Ready for Ageing?
• Office for National Statistics (2020) – Population Ageing in the United Kingdom
• United Nations (2020) – World Population Ageing 2020
• Institute and Faculty for Actuaries (2020) – Intergenerational Fairness
• Office for Budget Responsibility (2020) – Ageing Population

Economics

• Bui, Melissa (2021) – Age Bias: How government spending is skewed against the young
• United Nations (2020) World Has Moral Obligation to Ensure Future Generations Not Burdened by Mountain of Debt on Broken Planet
• Office for Budget Responsibility (2020) – Fiscal Sustainability Report
• Financial Conduct Authority (2019) – FCA opens debate on intergenerational finance: how industry and regulators should respond to demographic change
• HM Treasury (2020) – Whole of Government Accounts 2020
• Kingman, David (2020) – Young Adults 2020: IF Index of young adult’s wellbeing
• Intergenerational Foundation (2019) – An Extraordinary Anomaly: Why workers over state pension age should pay National Insurance
• Heckman, James J. (2020) – Invest in early childhood development: Reduce deficits, strengthen the economy
• Kershaw, Paul (2018) – Intergenerational justice in public finance: a Canadian case study
• Krause, Alan (2019) – Generational Bias and Tax Policy
• Office for Budget Responsibility (2017) – Intergenerational fairness
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – Sustainable Public Finances: Intergenerational Fairness
• Citizen’s Advice (2018) Walking on thin ice: the cost of financial insecurity
• Local Government Association (2019) – Local authority leaders have called on the Government to invest more in youth justice grants
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2018) UK Poverty: Annual Review
• OECD (2011) –Paying for the Past, Providing for the Future: Intergenerational Solidarity
• Leunig, Tim and Corlett, Adam (2012) –Tax Justice Whatever Your Age
• Leach, Jeremy (2012) –Pensioner Millionaires in the UK: Identifying the Numbers
• Douglas, Jason (2013) – BOE’s Haldane: “New Powers Make Us Guardians of Future Generations’ Prospects”

Pensions

• Office for Budget Responsibility (2020) – Fiscal Sustainability Report
• Office for National Statistics (2020) – Public sector finances, UK: September 2020
• Boxall, Daryl (2020) – Discount Rates in the Local Government Pension Scheme – An intergenerational fairness perspective
• Office for National Statistics (2018) – Pensions in the national accounts, a fuller picture of the UK’s funded and unfunded pension obligations: 2018
• National Audit Office (2020) – Public Service Pensions
• Kingman, David (2018) – The soaring cost of government pensions
• Work and Pensions Select Committee (2016) – Intergenerational fairness examined
• Andrew Hood (2017) Pension provision and intergenerational fairness
• Sinn, Hans-Werner (2005) – Europe’s Demographic Deficit: A Plea for a Child Pension System

Wealth and inheritance

• Haglund, Alec (2023) – Pensioner Millionaires in the UK: identifying the numbers
• All-Party Parliamentary Group for Inheritance & Intergenerational Fairness (2020) – papers
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (2021) – Inheritances and inequality over the life cycle: what will they mean for younger generations?
• Office for Tax Simplification (2019) Inheritance Tax Review – Second Report: Simplifying the Design of Inheritance Tax
• Kopczuk, Wojciech (2013) – Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth

Housing

• Lutz, Sylvan (2023) – No country for young people: The problems of accelerating rural-urban age segregation
• Lutz, Sylvan (2022) – Bring back the lodgers: How the UK housing stock could be used to combat the rental crisis
• Wiles, Colin (2021) – Stockpiling Space: How the pandemic has increased housing inequalities between older and younger generations
• Dr Kim McKee, Dr Steve Rolfe, Julie Feather, Dr Tom Simcock, & Dr Jenny Hoolachan (2021) – Making a home in the private rented sector: An evidence review
• Thinkhouse (2021) – Housing report repository
• Office for National Statistics (2021) – UK House Price Index 
• ONS (2021) –People, Population and Community dataset
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) (2020) –  Planning for the Future
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) (2020) – The charter for social housing residents: social housing white paper
• Shelter (2020) – Homeless and Forgotten: Surviving lockdown in temporary accommodation
• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2021) – Housing supply: indicators of new supply statistics
• The Guardian (2021) – House price inflation will continue for now, hitting the young and low-paid
• Wiles, Colin (2020) – Rabbit Hutch Homes: The growth of micro-homes
• Affordable Housing Commission (2020) – Making Housing Affordable Again: Rebalancing the Nation’s Housing System: The final report of the Affordable Housing Commission
• McKee, KIM and Mihaela Soaita, Adriana (2018) – The ‘frustrated’ housing aspirations of generation rent
• Department for Local Communities and Government (2017) – Fixing Our Broken Housing Market
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2017) – Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report: government response
• Dorling, Danny (2015) – All That is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It
• Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (2020) – Intergenerational Fairness Policy Papers
• The Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision (2018) – How has housing policy impacted on intergenerational fairness?

Higher Education

• Department for Education (2019) – Post-18 review of education and funding: independent panel report
• Ehsan, Rakib (2019) – Escape of the Wealthy: The unfairness of the English student finance system
• Albertson, Kevin (2017) – The Economic Inefficiency of Student Fees in England
• McGettigan, Andrew (2012) – False Accounting? Why the Government’s Higher Education Reforms Don’t Add Up
• The Browne Review of Higher Education Funding & Student Finance (2010) – Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System
• Higher Education Policy Institute (2012) – The Cost of the Government’s Reforms of the Financing of Higher Education

• Frostick, Tom and Gault, Tom (2013) – Postgraduate Education: Better Funding and Better Access
• White, Josh (2013) – Squeezing our Students? An English/OECD Comparison of the Student Funding Burden
• National Union of Students (2012) – The Pound in Your Pocket: Survey Results

• Fazackerley, Anna (May 6 2013) – Student Loans: Will it Soon be Pay-Back Time?
• Collini, Stefan (August 25 2011) – From Robbins to McKinsey

COVID-19

Healthcare

• Bui, Melissa (2020) – Costing Young Minds: The fiscal consequences of a lack of spending on young adult mental health
• NHS Digital (2020) – Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2020: Wave 1 follow up to the 2017 survey
• National Statistical (ONS) 2021 – Are we facing a mental health pandemic?
• Abdinasir, Kadra and Click, Oliver (2020) – CYPMHC annual report 2020
• Abdinasir, Kadra – Making the grade: How education shapes young people’s mental health
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood (2021) – The Covid Generation: A mental health pandemic in the making
• Kane, Martina and Bibby, Jo (2018) – Listening to our future: Early findings from the Young people’s future health inquiry
• Nigel Edwards, Emma Rigby and Professor Russell Viner (2019) – Sound the alarm: we must improve our young people’s health services
• Dilnot, Andrew (2011) – Findings on the Commission on Funding of Care and Support [Powerpoint Presentation]
• Lloyd, James (2012) – The Roadmap: England’s Choices for the Care Crisis
• Nuffield Trust (2012) – Reforming Social Care: Options for Funding

Employment

• Office for National Statistics (2021) – Coronavirus and changing young people’s labour market outcomes in the UK: March 2021
• Trade Union Congress (2018) – Stuck at the start: Young workers’ experiences of pay and Progression
• House of Commons Library (2013) – Youth Unemployment Statistics
• The Economist (May 8 2013) – Why is Youth Unemployment So High?
• The Economist (April 27 2013) – Generation Jobless
• HM Government (2012) – Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers: A Strategy for Social Mobility – update on progress since April 2011

Environment

• Climate Change Committee (CCC) (2020) Sixth Carbon Budget
• Climate Action Tracker (2021) – report
• Carbon Brief (2020) – Coronavirus: Tracking how the world’s ‘green recovery’ plans aim to cut emissions
• Greener UK (2021) – Government falls short of delivering promised ‘green Brexit’
• Hausfather, Zeke (2020) – Absolute Decoupling of Economic Growth and Emissions in 32 Countries
• HM Government (2019) – INVESTING IN A BETTER WORLD: Understanding the UK public’s demand for opportunities to invest in the Sustainable Development Goals
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (2020) – Doubling Back and Doubling Down: G20 scorecard on fossil fuel funding
• Setzer, Joana and Byrnes, Rebecca (2020) – Global trends in climate change litigation: 2020 snapshot
• United Nations (2010) – Sustainable Development: From Brundtland to Rio 2012
• Schneeberger, Kirsty (2011) – Intergenerational Equity: Implementing the Principle in Mainstream Decision-Making
• World Future Council (2011) – Intergenerational Environmental Justice: Tackling a Democratic Deficit with Ombusdpersons for Future Generations
• Habib, Allen (2011) – Sharing the Earth: Sustainability and the Currency of Intergenerational Environmental Justice
• Read, Rupert (2012) – Guardians of the Future
• Caney, Simon (2005) – Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change
• The Alliance for Future Generations (2011) – Rio+20 Open Challenge Paper

Politics

• Kingman, David and Leitch, Cameron (2020) – Grey Power: Young people missing from politics
• Berry, Craig (2012) – The Rise of Gerontocracy? Addressing the Intergenerational Democratic Deficit
• Riddell, Mary (Jan 22 2013) – Fear of the Grey Vote has Turned our Politicians into Cowards
• Nolan, Patrick (June 28 2011) – The Grey Lobby is Bad for Britain’s Health
• Imafidon, Kenny (2014) – Is “Politics” for young people?

Private Finance Initiative (PFI)

• House of Commons Treasury Committee (2011) – Private Finance Initiative
• HM Treasury (2012) –PFI Projects Data: March 2012
• Parker, David (2012) –The Public Finance Initiative and Intergenerational Equity

Comment

• Paxman, Jeremy (2011) – “I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy” (Daily Mail article)
• Self, Will (2013) – “Should the baby boomers leave the stage?” (BBC News article)
• Dakers, Stewart (April 10 2012) – As an older person, I’ve had it good – and the young know it
• Wilby, Peter April 19 (2012) – This Sentimentality Over Old People is Hitting Our Young
• Carn, Nick (2011) – Population Boom – And Bust
• Ferguson, Niall (June 17 2012) – Why the Young Should Welcome Austerity