The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy

Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health - both within and between countries - remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism

Zed Books | 25 April 2012

The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy by Gavin Mooney

Paperback
ISBN: 9781780320595
224 pages

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Mumbo Jumble: The underwhelming response of the American economics profession to the crisis

Neoclassical economists, having worked hard to convince the world that everything was hunky-dory circa 2005, and concurrently having invented the rationales and the theories behind the financial time bombs that went off across the landscape, don’t seem to have suffered one whit for the subsequent sequence of events, a slow-motion train wreck that one might reasonably have expected would have rubbished the credibility of lesser mortals

by Philip Mirowski | Feb 28 2012 by OpenDemocracy in Energy Bulletin | Mar 1 2012

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Public Utility, Private Profit: Privatization of Water Is as Benign as Lucifer

There hasn’t been much rain this season where I live. Personally, I don’t mind much. I like sunny days, summer weather, dry fairways at San Geronimo. The deer are not very happy, having to spend more time on my street than they’d prefer but they’ve had to come down from the hills a bit looking for food

by: Richard Raznikov | truthout | 9 February 2012

Picture taken in Sénégal, Western Africa. A tap locked in order to limit the usage of water. (Photo: nitot)

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Once, men abused slaves. Now we abuse fossil fuels

Pointing out the similarities (and differences) between slavery and the use of fossil fuels can help us engage with climate change in a new way

Jean-François Mouhot | guardian.co.uk | 3 February 2012

'That US Congressmen tend to rationalise fossil fuel use despite climate risks to future generations just as southern congressmen rationalised slavery despite ideals of equality is perhaps unsurprising'. Photograph: Joseph Sohm/Corbis

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