Social Policy and Macroeconomic Performance: Integrating ‘the Economic’ and ‘the Social’

Diane Elson

Chapter 3 in Social Policy in a Development Context, 2004, pp 63-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The quotation marks that are placed around ‘the economic’ and ‘the social’ alert us to the fact that this is an abstract duality. In the ‘real’ world people do not live their lives in two separate domains. The aspects of life that we label ‘economic’ and ‘social’ are intertwined. The policies we label ‘economic’ and ‘social’ each have ramifications for both the dimensions we label ‘economic’ and those we label ‘social’. As Barbara Harriss-White points out in her contribution, ‘social policy is economic policy’. But at the same time, as pointed out in Elson and Cagatay (2000), economic policy is social policy.

Keywords: Civil Society; Monetary Policy; Macroeconomic Policy; Policy Dialogue; Social Dialogue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-52397-5_3

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230523975

DOI: 10.1057/9780230523975_3

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Social Policy in a Development Context from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().