ENGLISH

How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics

By Ted Schrecker , Clare Bambra

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
1137463066, 9781137463067
Google Books ID
SPS_CQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12141856 bytes)
Pages
xii+168\181
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-07-26 19:39:03
Economic Policy Development Economics Business Mon

Description

Since the early 1980s, neoliberalism or 'market fundamentalism' has dominated politics and economics across the globe. In this important book, Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra consider the effects of over three decades of these policies with particular reference to the US and the UK. They focus on obesity, insecurity, austerity, and inequality, arguing that each represents a 'neoliberal epidemic' - neoliberal because they are implicated in the rise of neoliberal politics; and epidemics because they have been rapidly transmitted across international populations at a rate seen in epidemics of biological contagions. Crucially, the authors argue that neoliberal epidemics require a political cure in the form of a revitalised and social democratic welfare state.

Similar books