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The Body Economic
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Author : Sanjay Basu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Body Economic written by Sanjay Basu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Economics categories.
The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations. But we have little sense of how it affects one of the most fundamental issues of all: our physical and mental health. This book, based on the authors' own groundbreaking research, looks at the daily lives of people affected by financial crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s, to post-communist Russia, to the US foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s.
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Author : Catherine Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
The Body Economic written by Catherine Gallagher and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.
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Author : David Stuckler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-05-21
The Body Economic written by David Stuckler and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Business & Economics categories.
The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations. But we have little sense of how it affects one of the most fundamental issues of all: our physical and mental health. This highly significant new book, based on the authors' own groundbreaking research, looks at the daily lives of people affected by financial crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s, to post-communist Russia, to the US foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s. Why, it asks, did Sweden experience a fall in suicides during its banking crisis? What triggered a mosquito-borne epidemic in California in 2007? What caused 10 million Russian men to 'disappear' in the 1990s? Why is Greece experiencing rocketing HIV rates? And how did the health of Americans actually improve during the catastrophic crisis of the 1930s? The conclusions it draws are both surprising and compelling: remarkably, when faced with similar crises, the health of some societies - like Iceland - improves, while that of others, such as Greece, deteriorates. Even amid the worst economic disasters, negative public health effects are not inevitable: it's how communities respond to challenges of debt and market turmoil that counts. The Body Economic puts forward a radical proposition. Austerity, it argues, is seriously bad for your health. We can prevent financial crises from becoming epidemics, but to do so, we must acknowledge what the hard data tells us: that, throughout history, there is a causal link between the strength of a community's health and its social protection systems. Now and for generations to come, our commitment to the building of fairer, more equal societies will determine the health of our body economic.
The Body Economic
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Author : David Stuckler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-05
The Body Economic written by David Stuckler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-05 with Economics categories.
An agenda-shaping look at the human costs of financial crisis--the culmination of ten years' work by two pioneering researchers Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impact of the Great Recession, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health and have even exacerbated them by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time when citizens need them most. The result, as pioneering public health experts David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu reveal in this provocative book, is that many countries have turned their recessions into veritable epidemics, ruining or extinguishing thousands of lives in a misguided attempt to balance budgets and shore up financial markets. Yet sound alternative policies could help improve economies and protect public health at the same time. In The Body Economic, Stuckler and Basu mine data from around the globe and across history to show how government policy becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises. Through a series of case studies stretching from the United States in the 1930s to Russia and Indonesia in the 1990s and present-day Greece, Britain, Spain, Canada and America, Stuckler and Basu reveal that political mismanagement of financial crises has resulted in a grim array of human tragedies, including suicides, HIV infections, West Nile Virus and tuberculosis epidemics. Yet people can and do stay healthy, and even get healthier, during downturns. During the Great Depression, U.S. death rates actually plummeted, and today, people in Iceland, Norway and Japan are happier and healthier than ever. Full of shocking and counterintuitive revelations and bold policy recommendations, The Body Economic offers an alternative to austerity--one that will prevent widespread suffering, both now and in the future.
The Body Economic
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Author : Sanjay Basu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Body Economic written by Sanjay Basu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Economics categories.
The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations. But we have little sense of how it affects one of the most fundamental issues of all: our physical and mental health. This book, based on the authors' own groundbreaking research, looks at the daily lives of people affected by financial crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s, to post-communist Russia, to the US foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s.
The Individual In The Economy
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Author : Stephen E. G. Lea
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1987-04-24
The Individual In The Economy written by Stephen E. G. Lea and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-04-24 with Business & Economics categories.
The Individual in the Economy presents interesting analyses of important human behaviours.
The Body Economic
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Author : G. Alwyn Zittrauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-14
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This book is a radical departure from most theories about how an Economy works. Classical Economic principles are taken apart and pieced back together into a coherent system. How is this different from what we have now? We have mathematical formulas and models that don't interrelate. They don't tell us how an Economy actually works as a whole. How do the different parts of it interact together to make a functional whole? We need to be able to grasp, deep down, how an Economy works. Not with complex mathematical jargon, but with a mental picture of what it is. We are that picture. The human body is that picture. This book is an attempt to philosophically examine what makes an Economy tick. A knowledge of higher mathematics is not required. This is not a mathematically driven book; it is driven by concepts. There are no charts or equations herein that need to be solved. If your glass is empty enough to be filled with some new concepts, then the basic understanding of an Economy is within your reach.The primary questions this book attempts to answer: why can't anybody seem to figure out what is wrong with the Economy and then how to fix it? The answer: because we are all using really bad models. Primarily, socialism and capitalism. Both of these conflicting ideologies have taken Economics out of the scientific world and into the political one. This is not working well for any of us. What this book intends to do is show how an Economy actually works and what we can do to make it healthy. This book will uncover and layout the similarities between the anatomical systems of a human body and the systems of an Economy. The intent of the book is to offer a basic model that can be used by anyone to understand how an Economy really works. The model is of a dynamic system that interacts and reacts to the world around it, much like a human body does. In time, it will hopefully evolve to become as useful to economists as the anatomical model of the human body is to physicians. Opening a path to prosperity is the purpose for which this book has been written. We are currently on a path that leads to an abyss. If you take away anything from this experience, it will at least be a realization of why poverty has been so hard to resolve and how we might be able to properly dispose of it.
Economics Of Good And Evil
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Author : Tomas Sedlacek
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Economics Of Good And Evil written by Tomas Sedlacek and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy--Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments--and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us." Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.
The Changing Body
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Author : Roderick Floud
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-31
The Changing Body written by Roderick Floud and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.
Refreshing The Singapore System Recalibrating Socio Economic Policy For The 21st Century
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Author : Terence Wai Luen Ho
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2021-08-13
Refreshing The Singapore System Recalibrating Socio Economic Policy For The 21st Century written by Terence Wai Luen Ho and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-13 with Political Science categories.
Singapore's rapid ascent from Third World to First since its independence in 1965 has won it acclaim as an 'economic miracle'. Economic success has been accompanied by impressive achievements in social development, as reflected in international rankings of human capital and human development.The city state's achievements are founded on a socio-economic system characterised by low tax rates, flexible labour markets, and individual 'self-reliance', with state support centred on social investment in education and public housing.Entering the 21st century, however, slowing economic growth, an ageing population, global competition, and widening income dispersion have put the Singapore System under strain. This has prompted a significant refresh of social and economic policies over the past 15-20 years.This book aims to bring the reader up to date on Singapore's socio-economic development in the first two decades of the 21st century. It looks back to the shifts in policy thinking that have accompanied structural changes to Singapore's society and economy, taking stock of the policy innovations aimed at sustaining income growth, economic security, and social mobility. It looks around to compare Singapore's approach to those of other countries facing similar challenges, situating Singapore's experience in the wider international discourse on public policy. Finally, it looks ahead to how the Singapore System may evolve in the years to come.