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SECTION ONE: ASSESSING THE DAMAGE: Globalisation: the economics of insecurity -- Democracy for sale -- A world in decline -- Globalising poverty, inequality, and unemployment -- SECTION TWO: THE GREEN ALTERNATIVE: Economic localisation -- SECTION THREE: TURNING THE TIDE: Connecting hearts and minds -- Learning from history -- Storming the citadels: sacking Bretton Woods and the WTO -- SECTION FOUR: APPLYING THE ALTERNATIVE: Local food: the global solution -- Localising money -- A new context for multilateralism

• Summary: This article reports an audit of people considered for transfer from a hospice to a nursing home for end-of-life care and discusses implications for patients, families and staff. • Findings: Moving patients to nursing homes at the end of their lives is often distressing for both patients and families and in many cases patients die within a short time of transfer. Few patients are actually transferred although many more are asked to face this possibility often creating unnecessary anxiety. This may have adverse consequences for family members' bereavement. • Applications : There is a weak evidence base for transferring patients from hospices to nursing homes. Palliative care services assume a short in-patient stay to ration an expensive scarce resource. Assessment with social work contributions identifying complex emotional, family and bereavement consequences may allow multidisciplinary teams to justify longer hospice stays by identifying more complex needs to justify better substantive equality between patients.

Is a Universal Basic Income the answer to an increasingly precarious job landscape? Could it bring greater financial freedom for women, tackle the issue of unpaid but essential work, cut poverty and promote greater choice? Or is it a dead-end utopian ideal that distracts from more practical and cost-effective solutions? Contributors from musician Brian Eno, think tank Demos Helsinki, innovators such as California's Y Combinator Research and prominent academics such as Peter Beresford OBE offer a variety of perspectives from across the globe on the politics and feasibility of basic income. Sharing research and insights from a variety of nations – including India, Finland, Uganda, Brazil and Canada - the collection provides a comprehensive guide to the impact this innovative idea could have on work, welfare and inequality in the 21st century