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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
Consequences for Health
And Quality of Life
Vicente Navarro, Editor
The dramatic increase in social inequalities within and among countries in
the last twenty years has had a most negative impact on the health and
quality of life of large sectors of the world's populations. In The
Political Economy of Social Inequalities, scholars from a variety of
disciplines and countries analyze the political and economic causes of
these inequalities, their consequences for health, and some proposed
solutions.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Vicente Navarro
PART I
REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH
A Historical Review (1965-1997) of Studies on Class, Health, and Quality
of Life:
A Personal Account
Vicente Navarro
PART II
CAUSES FOR THE GROWTH OF INEQUALITIES AND
THEIR IMPACT ON HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Neoliberalism, "Globalization," Unemployment, Inequalities, and the
Welfare State, Vicente Navarro
Health and Equity in the World in the Era of "Globalization," Vicente
Navarro
The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Developed Capitalist
Countries, Vicente Navarro
PART III
CRITIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES: WHO, PAHO, WORLD BANK, IMF,
UNICEF,
AND UNDP
Ravaging the Poor: The International Monetary Fund Indicted by Its Own
Data, Gabriel Kolko
World Bank Education Policy: Market Liberalism Meets Ideological
Conservatism, Adriana Puiggrs
Market Commodities and Poor Relief: The World Bank Proposal for Health,
Asa Cristina Laurell and Oliva Lpez 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
A 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
PART IV
NEOLIBERALISM AND SOCIAL AND HEALTH POLICY
The Mexican Social Security Counter reform: Pensions for Profit
Asa Cristina Laurell
Remaking Medicare: The Voucher Myth
Jonathan Oberlander
A Slippery Slope: Economists and Social Insurance in the United States
Richard B. Du Boff
PART V
DEBATE ON PATHWAYS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND HEALTH
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
The Social Class Determinants of Income Inequality
and Social Cohesion
Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and Gary L. Oates
PART VI
ANALYSIS OF PROPOSED SOLUTIONS: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
POLITICAL CONTEXT
The 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
Vicente Navarro
Are Pro-Welfare State and Full-Employment Policies Possible
in the Era of Globalization?
Vicente Navarro
About the Author
Vicente Navarro is professor of health and public policy, sociology, and
policy studies at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and
professor of political and social sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
in Barcelona, Spain. A founder and past president of the International
Association of Health Policy and founder and editor-in-chief of the
International Journal of Health Services, he has written extensively on
health and public policy themes.
Dr. Navarro is the author of fifteen books translated into several
languages and of many articles on these themes. His latest books are The
Politics of Health Policy (Blackwell) and Neoliberalismo y Estado del
Bienestar, Globalizacion Economica Poder Politico y Estado del Bienestar
(Ariel Sociedad Economica).
About the Book
In the last two decades of the 20th century, we witnessed a dramatic
growth in social inequalities within and among countries. This has had a
most negative impact on the health and quality of life of large sectors of
the populations in the developed and underdeveloped world. This volume
analyzes the reasons for this increase in inequalities and its
consequences for the well being of populations. Scholars from a variety of
disciplines and countries analyze the different dimensions of this topic.
Part I of this volume reviews the historical evolution of the political
context in which scientific studies on social inequalities have evolved.
Part II examines the causes for the growing inequalities, questioning
economic determinist explanations (such as attributing the growth to
economic globalization) and technological determinist explanations (such
as attributing the growth to the requirements of the New Economy). These
chapters show, instead, how the growth of inequalities is rooted in power
relations within and among countries and their reproduction through the
state. The enormous economic and political power of the financial and
entrepreneurial establishments and their related social classes is
responsible for neoliberal public policies characterized by increased
transfer of funds from labor to capital, further deregulation of labor
markets, and declining redistribution through the welfare state.
Part III then analyzes how the World Bank, IMF, WHO, and other
international agencies are reproducing these neoliberal policies.
Part IV addresses how privatization of the welfare state and resulting
inequalities are negatively affecting the quality of life of populations.
Part V presents one of today's major debates (the Wilkinson-Muntaner
debate) in the scientific literature on the relationship between
inequalities and health, contrasting different conceptions (one based on
Weber, the other on Marx) of the pathways between inequalities and health.
In Part VI, the contributors critically analyze some proposed solutions
for reducing inequalities and provide alternative proposals rooted in the
need to broaden the meaning of politics, democracy, and quality of life,
and to intervene actively in political life on the side of those who
question power relations within and among countries.
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