Research Catalog

Title

Neoliberalism, globalization, and inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life / edited by Vicente Navarro.

Publication

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Navarro, Vicente.

Description

vii, 506 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series

Uniform Title

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)

Subjects

• World health
• Quality of life
• Welfare state
• Public health > Economic aspects
• Equality > Health aspects
• Globalization > Health aspects
• Public health > Political aspects
• Neoliberalism > Health aspects
• Health services accessibility

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Neoliberalism as a class ideology; or, The political causes of the growth of inequalities / Vicente Navarro -- Is globalization undermining the welfare state? The evolution of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries during the 1990s / Vicente Navarro, John Schmitt, and Javier Astudillo -- The future of the welfare state: crisis myths and crisis realities / Francis G. Castles -- Should we worry about income inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade -- The causes of increasing world poverty and inequality; or, Why the Matthew effect prevails / Robert Hunter Wade -- Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade -- The scorecard on development: 25 years of diminished progress / Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick -- The world health situation / Vicente Navarro -- Economic efficiency versus social equality? The U.S. liberal model versus the European social model / Vicente Navarro and John Schmitt -- Is the United States a good model for reducing social exclusion in Europe? / John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer -- Labor markets and economic inequality in the United States since the end of the 1970s / John Schmitt --
• Neoliberalism as a class ideology; or, the political causes of the growth of inequalities / Vicente Navarro -- Is globalization undermining the welfare state? The evolution of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries during the 1990s / Vicente Navarro, John Schmitt, and Javier Astudillo -- The future of the welfare state: crisis myths and crisis realities / Francis G. Castles -- Should we worry about inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade -- The causes of increasing world poverty and inequality; or, why the Matthew effect prevails / Robert Hunter Wade -- Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade -- The scorecard on development: 25 years of diminished progress / Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick -- The world health situation / Vicente Navarro -- Economic efficiency versus social equality? The U.S. liberal model versus the European social model / Vicente Navarro and John Schmitt -- Is the United States a good model for reducing social exclusion in Europe? / John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer -- Labor markets and economic inequality in the United States since the end of the 1970s / John Schmitt --
• The politics of health inequalities research in the United States / Vicente Navarro -- An alternative to the neoliberal model in health: the case of Venezuela / Oscar Feo and Carlos Eduardo Siqueira -- Venezuela's Barrio Adentro: an alternative to neoliberalism in health care / Carles Muntaner ... [et al.] -- The dispossession of African wealth at the cost of Africa's health / Patrick Bond -- Uneven health outcomes and political resistance under residual neoliberalism in Africa / Patrick Bond and George Dor -- The International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa: a "disastrous" record / Demba Moussa Dembele -- The Sachs report: investing in health for economic development? Or increasing the size of the crumbs from the rich man's table? / Alison Katz -- Report of the WHO commission on macroeconomics and health: a critique / Debabar Banerji -- Assessment of the World health report 2000 / Vicente Navarro -- Serious crisis in the practice of international health by the World Health Organization: the commission on social determinants of health / Debabar Banerji -- A critique of Jeffrey D. Sachs's The end of poverty / Doug Henwood.

Call Number

JFE 07-7193

ISBN

• 9780895033383 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0895033380 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780895033444 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0895033445 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007005970

OCLC

84152889

Title

Neoliberalism, globalization, and inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life / edited by Vicente Navarro.

Imprint

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., c2007.

Series

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Navarro, Vicente.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-7193