Peter Robert Saunders

Peter Saunders is a social researcher who has worked in the UK (as Professor of Sociology at the the University of Sussex until 1999), and in Australia (Research Manager at the Australian Institute of Family Studies 1999-2000 and Social Research Director at 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

• Social Mobility Myths (2010, ISBN 9781906837143)
• The Versailles Memorandum (2009, ISBN 9781445206905)
• Taxploitation: The Case for Income Tax Reform (edited 2006, ISBN 1864321148).
• Australia's Welfare Habit: And how to kick it (2004, ISBN 1864320923).
• A Self-Reliant Australia (2003, ISBN 186432080X).
• Poverty in Australia: Beyond the Rhetoric (2002, ISBN 1864320729).
• Social Foundations of a Free Society (2001, ISBN 1864320656).
• Unequal But Fair (1996, ISBN 0255363664).
• Capitalism: A Social Audit (1995, ISBN 033519141X).
• Privatization and Popular Capitalism (with Colin Harris, 1994, ISBN 0335157084).
• A Nation of Home Owners (1990 ISBN 0044454899).
• Social Class and Stratification (1990, ISBN 0415041252) .
• Social Theory and the Urban Question (1981/1986, ISBN 0091644313).

External links

• Peter Saunders personal website lists all publications & contact details
• New novel read extracts and order a copy of his new political thriller
• Profile at the Centre for Independent Studies Website
• Biography at the Brisbane Institute Web site.
• Profile at the Centre for Independent Studies Web site.
• Saunders's articles at On Line Opinion Web site.