Peter Robert Saunders

Peter Saunders is a social researcher who has worked in the UK (as Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex until 1999), and in Australia (as Research Manager at the Australian Institute of Family Studies 1999-2000 and as Social Research Director at libertarian think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies, 2001–2008). In 2008 he returned to the UK where he is now working as an independent social research consultant and fiction writer.

Selected publications

• The Rise of the Equalities Industry (2011, ISBN 978-1-906837-33-4).
• When Prophecy Fails (2011, ISBN 978-1-864321-76-0)
• Beware False Prophets (2010, ISBN 978-1-906097-78-3)
• Social Mobility Myths (2010, ISBN 978-1-906837-14-3)
• The Versailles Memorandum (2009, ISBN 978-1-4452-0690-5)
• Taxploitation: The Case for Income Tax Reform (edited 2006, ISBN 1-86432-114-8).
• Australia's Welfare Habit: And how to kick it (2004, ISBN 1-86432-092-3).
• A Self-Reliant Australia (2003, ISBN 1-86432-080-X).
• Poverty in Australia: Beyond the Rhetoric (2002, ISBN 1-86432-072-9).
• Social Foundations of a Free Society (2001, ISBN 1-86432-065-6).
• Unequal But Fair (1996, ISBN 0-255-36366-4).
• Capitalism: A Social Audit (1995, ISBN 0-335-19141-X).
• Privatization and Popular Capitalism (with Colin Harris, 1994, ISBN 0-335-15708-4).
• A Nation of Home Owners (1990 ISBN 0-04-445489-9).
• Social Class and Stratification (1990, ISBN 0-415-04125-2) .
• Social Theory and the Urban Question (1981/1986, ISBN 0-09-164431-3).

External links

• Peter Saunders personal website lists all publications & contact details.
• Novel provides readers' feedback on his political thriller.
• Profile at the Centre for Independent Studies Web site.
• Saunders's articles at On Line Opinion Web site.