Understanding the cost of welfare (third edition)

A substantial, authoritative, third edition of this important textbook about the impact of economic priorities and pressures on social policies at a time when neo-liberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.

About the author

Howard Glennerster is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been an advisor to Her Majesty's Treasury and to the Secretary of State for Health. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academician of the Social Sciences section of the Learned Societies.

Summary

A substantial, authoritative, third edition of this important textbook about the impact of economic priorities and pressures on social policies at a time when neo-liberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Glennerster, Howard (Department of Social Administration Glennerster
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2017
• EAN: 9781447334033
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-3403-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 684 g
• Series: Understanding Welfare: Social; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education