Social Policy and Economics

About this course

Social policy and economics is a combination that brings analytical tools from economics to bear on the questions that social policy raises: how resources should be distributed, how public services should be designed and funded, what the consequences of different welfare arrangements are, and how inequalities of income, health, and opportunity can be understood and addressed. Economics provides the theoretical and quantitative frameworks, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics, that allow you to analyse policy questions rigorously. Social policy provides the institutional context and normative questions that give those frameworks their purpose. The University of Edinburgh's four-year full-time Social Policy and Economics programme draws on Edinburgh's strength in both subjects. You will study economic theory, quantitative methods, and empirical analysis alongside the

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