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At What Cost makes a compelling case to extend examination beyond health-harming corporate actions—Big Tobacco, Big Food, Big Pharma, and now Big Tech—to explore the social and economic relations that entrench and enable such behavior. The most important message of this book is that capitalism, particularly the rapacious form of 21st ...
Jan 1, 2021 · Global capitalism affects the social determinants of health through multiple pathways. •. Article presents a novel conceptual framework to map effects and guide analyses. •. Framework emphasizes transnational economic, political, and cultural practices. Abstract.
- Matthew B. Flynn
- 2021
Jan 1, 2023 · Extreme poverty is not the natural condition in Europe, but a symptom of extraordinary social and economic collapse. The rise of capitalism, rather than delivering improvements in human welfare, was associated with plummeting wages, a reduction in human stature, and a marked upturn in the incidence of famine.
Sep 9, 2019 · Capitalism is an all-encompassing global phenomenon that interacts with health at multiple scales and via a range of ‘vectors’ that analysts must engage, examine and understand. We highlight...
Mar 28, 2022 · While Marx’s main focus in Capital Volume 1 is on the production of surplus value by workers and its appropriation by capitalists, he does provide insights into how capitalism ruins the health of workers themselves, although these insights are scattered. In this article, I systematically re-articulate and analyse Marx’s thoughts about ...
Nov 28, 2019 · The structural perspective outlined here sheds light on some of the fundamental challenges involved in achieving Universal Health Care (UHC) in this twenty-first-century era of trade and financialized capitalism.
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Nov 8, 2021 · Capitalism should deliver growth and can help with climate change, but it cannot deliver all the other values to which we attach importance in relation to education, health, and social care. For these, institutional reform is needed.
