Introduction 1 Freedom's Just Another Word  2 The Construction of Consent 3 The Neoliberal State 4 Uneven Geographical Developments 5 Neoliberalism with 'Chinese Characteristics' 6 Neoliberalism on Trial 7 Freedom's Prospect Notes Bibliography Index

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism

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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

As GDP is a measure of market capacity and not economic well-being, this report has been commissioned to more accurately understand the social progress indicators of any given state. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used measure of economic activity. There are international standards for its calculation, and much thought has gone into its statistical and conceptual bases. But GDP mainly measures market production, though it has often been treated as if it were a measure of economic well-being. Conflating the two can lead to misleading indications about how well-off people are and entail the wrong policy decisions. One reason why money measures of economic performance and living standards have come to play such an important role in our societies is that the monetary valuation of goods and services makes it easy to add up quantities of a very different nature. When we know the prices of apple juice and DVD players, we can add up their values and make statements about production and consumption in a single figure. But market prices are more than an accounting device. Economic theory tells us that when markets are functioning properly, the ratio of one market price to another is reflective of the relative appreciation of the two products by those who purchase them. Moreover, GDP captures all final goods in the economy, whether they are consumed by households, firms or government. Valuing them with their prices would thus seem to be a good way of capturing, in a single number, how well-off society is at a particular moment. Furthermore, keeping prices unchanged while observing how quantities of goods and services that enter GDP move over time would seem like a reasonable way of making a statement about how society’s living standards are evolving in real terms. As it turns out, things are more complicated. First, prices may not exist for some goods and services (if for instance government provides free health insurance or if households are engaged in child care), raising the question of how these services should be valued. Second, even where there are market prices, they may deviate from society’s underlying valuation. In particular, when the consumption or production of particular products affects society as a whole, the price that individuals pay for those products will differ from their value to society at large. Environmental damage caused by production or consumption activities that is not reflected in market prices is a well-known example.

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Report by the commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress

This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behaviour. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernisation theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernisation is a process of human development, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely. The authors present a model of social change that predicts how the value systems play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions - and that modernisation brings coherent cultural changes that are conducive to democratisation.

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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence

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Macroeconomics and health: investing in health for economic development

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Development as Freedom

The political ecology of disease in Tanzania

The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation

What women do in war time, Meredith Turshen South African women demand the truth, Beth Goldblatt and Sheila Meintjes women and violence in KwaZulu/Natal, Ashnie Padarath Mozambican women experiencing violence, Alcinda Antonio de Abreu attack with a friendly weapon, Asma Abdel Halim "favours" to give and "consenting" victims - the sexual politics of survival in Rwanda, Clotilde Twagiramariya and Meredith Turshen women denounce their treatment in Chad, Women's Commission of the Human Rights League of Chad et al hundreds of victims silently grieving, Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL) et al we left our shoes behind, Teckla Shikola the militarization of Africa, Daniel Volman.

What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa

This text analyzes the disappearance of public health in the form of state services in Africa, and the growth of a private market in health care that will serve primarily an urban elite. It provides a case study of Zimbabwe and comparative material from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

Meredeth Turshen

Papers

Development as Freedom

The political ecology of disease in Tanzania

The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation

What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa

Privatizing health services in Africa