Research in social policy has been greatly influenced by the emergence of modern political economy in the late 1970s. The Handbook on the Political Economy of S
Comprises 33 papers grouped under five themes: The Nature of social policy; The History of social policy; Social policy and the social services; The Political e
The Handbook on the Political Economy of War highlights and explores important research questions and discusses the core elements of the political economy of wa
Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science
The author's aim is to show how economics can be applied to some of the important problem areas of social policy: How to measure the cost and effectiveness of p
