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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

yRavaging 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

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



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