Economic and ethical Implications of the Welfare State by Professor Philip Booth PhD

Toward a Free and Virtuous Society 2014
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Professor Philip Booth PhD
Economic and ethical Implications of the Welfare State
Professor Philip Booth PhD
Philip Booth is Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School (London). Before that, he was Professor of Real Estate Finance (from 2000-2002) and Associate Dean of Cass Business School. He started working at City University in the old Department of Actuarial Science and Statistics in 1988. He began his career working in the Investment Department of Axa Equity and Law (1985-1988). He has had a period on secondment to the Bank of England (1998-1999) and worked there as a special adviser from 1999-2002. Philip Booth established his reputation in actuarial science in the fields of investment, finance and social insurance. His work in investment and finance included a number of publications in the real estate finance literature on the role of property in pension funds and the valuation of property with upward only rent reviews as well as on property risk analysis.
Philip Booth also works as Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and was a Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University (2010-2011). He is deputy editor of Economic Affairs; and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Property Research.