This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy, BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students. Places on this course are limited and priority is given to Social Policy students in the first instance. If places remain available once Social Policy students have been accommodated, they will be offered on a first come first served basis to students from outside the Department.? This course is not available to third year students. ?
This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy, BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students. Places on this course are limited and priority is given to Social Policy students in the first instance. If places remain available once Social Policy students have been accommodated, they will be offered on a first come first served basis to students from outside the Department.? This course is not available to third year students.
Courses in Social Policy will follow the Teaching Model which has been adopted by the Department of Social Policy during the period of the pandemic. This is outlined HERE:?https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/Current-Students/teaching-in-the-department-of-social-policyThis course will be taught through a combination of either a recorded lecture plus a follow-up Q and A session or a ?live? on-line lecture; and classes/seminars of 1-1.5 hours (with size and length of classes/seminars depending on social distancing requirements).Further information will be provided by the Course Convenor in the first lecture of the course.
Students will be expected to complete exercises as required for classes, and write three formative essays during the course of the year.
J Le Grand, C Propper & R Robinson, The Economics of Social Problems, 4th Edition, Palgrave, 2008 R Lipsey and A Crystal, Economics, 14th edition, OUP, 2020 (or earlier edition) N Barr, Economics of the Welfare State, 6th Edition, OUP 2020 (or earlier edition) H Glennerster, Understanding the Cost of Welfare, 3rd edition. The Policy Press, 2017 J Hills, Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and US, revised edition, The Policy Press, 2017 A B Atkinson, Inequality: What Can Be Done? Harvard University Press, 2015.
Online assessment (100%) in the ST.