| Description |
v, 530 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Puiggros -- Market commodities and poor relief : the World Bank proposal for health / Asa Cristina Laurell and Oliva Lopez 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Quality of life.
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Poverty.
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Equality.
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Income distribution.
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Poor -- Medical care.
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| Added Author |
Navarro, Vicente.
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| ISBN |
0895032201 (cloth) |
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089503252X (pbk.) |
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