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

In: Social Policy in a Development Context

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  • Diane Elson

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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.

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  • Diane Elson, 2004. "Social Policy and Macroeconomic Performance: Integrating ‘the Economic’ and ‘the Social’," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Thandika Mkandawire (ed.), Social Policy in a Development Context, chapter 3, pages 63-79, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-52397-5_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523975_3
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