Placing the Social Economy

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about the social economy and the term "the third way". Placing the Social Economy provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy.

It's easy-to-follow, accessible style will provide students in these areas with an important tool in understanding contemporary economics, while its recommendations deserve to become required reading for public policy makers and advisors.

Introduction, Chapter 1. The social economy in context, Chapter 2. Social economy, social exclusion, localisation, Chapter 3. Policy and practice in the UK social economy, Chapter
4. The corporatist social economy: Glasgow and Middlesbrough, Chapter5. The distributed social economy: Bristol and Tower Hamlets, Chapter 6. Prospects