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The political economy of social inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life
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- Creator
- edited by Vicente Navarro
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Amityville, NY : Baywood Pub. Co., [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- v, 530 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780895032201, 0895032201, 9780895032522, 089503252X
- OCLC
- ocm48624967
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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