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The political economy of social inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life / edited by Vicente Navarro.

Contributor(s): Navarro, VicenteMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Policy, politics, health, and medicine seriesPublication details: Amityville, NY : Baywood Pub. Co., 2000. Description: v, 530 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0895032201; 089503252XSubject(s): Public health -- economics | Socioeconomic factors | Quality of life | Health policy | Social welfare -- economicsDDC classification: LOC classification: NLM classification: | WA 30 2000PO
Contents:
Historical review (1965-1997) of studies on class, health, and quality of life : a personal account ; Neoliberalism, "globalization," unemployment, inequalities, and the welfare state ; Health and equity in the world in the era of "globalization" ; Political economy of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries / Vicente Navarro -- Ravaging the poor : the International Monetary Fund indicted by its own data / Gabriel Kolko -- World Bank education policy : market liberalism meets ideological conservatism / Adriana Puiggrós -- Market commodities and poor relief : the World Bank proposal for health / Asa Cristina Laurell and Oliva López Arellano -- Neoliberalism revised? : a critical account of World Bank conceptions of good governance and market friendly intervention / Ray Kiely -- In pursuit of "growth with equity" : the limits of Chile's free-market social reforms / Pilar Vergara -- Fundamental shift in the approach to international health by WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank : instances of the practice of "intellectual fascism" and totalitarianism in some Asian countries / Debabar Banerji -- Mexican social security counterreform : pensions for profit / Asa Cristina Laurell -- Remaking Medicare : the voucher myth / Jonathan Oberlander -- Slippery slope : economists and social insurance in the United States / Richard B. Du Boff -- Income inequality, social cohesion, and class relations : a critique of Wilkinson's neo-Durkheimian research program / Carles Muntaner and John Lynch -- Income inequality, social cohesion, and health : clarifying the theory-- a reply to Muntaner and Lynch / Richard G. Wilkinson -- Social class determinants of income inequality and social cohesion / Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and Gary L. Oates -- Political context of social inequalities and health / Vicente Navarro and Leiyu Shi -- Is there a third way? : a response to Giddens's The Third Way / Vicente Navarro -- Toward an ecosocial view of health / Richard Levins and Cynthia Lopez -- Development and quality of life : a critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom ; Are pro-welfare state and full-employment policies possible in the era of globalization? / Vicente Navarro.
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Historical review (1965-1997) of studies on class, health, and quality of life : a personal account ; Neoliberalism, "globalization," unemployment, inequalities, and the welfare state ; Health and equity in the world in the era of "globalization" ; Political economy of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries / Vicente Navarro -- Ravaging the poor : the International Monetary Fund indicted by its own data / Gabriel Kolko -- World Bank education policy : market liberalism meets ideological conservatism / Adriana Puiggrós -- Market commodities and poor relief : the World Bank proposal for health / Asa Cristina Laurell and Oliva López Arellano -- Neoliberalism revised? : a critical account of World Bank conceptions of good governance and market friendly intervention / Ray Kiely -- In pursuit of "growth with equity" : the limits of Chile's free-market social reforms / Pilar Vergara -- Fundamental shift in the approach to international health by WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank : instances of the practice of "intellectual fascism" and totalitarianism in some Asian countries / Debabar Banerji -- Mexican social security counterreform : pensions for profit / Asa Cristina Laurell -- Remaking Medicare : the voucher myth / Jonathan Oberlander -- Slippery slope : economists and social insurance in the United States / Richard B. Du Boff -- Income inequality, social cohesion, and class relations : a critique of Wilkinson's neo-Durkheimian research program / Carles Muntaner and John Lynch -- Income inequality, social cohesion, and health : clarifying the theory-- a reply to Muntaner and Lynch / Richard G. Wilkinson -- Social class determinants of income inequality and social cohesion / Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and Gary L. Oates -- Political context of social inequalities and health / Vicente Navarro and Leiyu Shi -- Is there a third way? : a response to Giddens's The Third Way / Vicente Navarro -- Toward an ecosocial view of health / Richard Levins and Cynthia Lopez -- Development and quality of life : a critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom ; Are pro-welfare state and full-employment policies possible in the era of globalization? / Vicente Navarro.

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