HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Free Trade, Decommodification, Economic Globalization
25 Feb 2015
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Chapter 3 health and health care: a political economy perspective. Inherent in the approach taken is the notion that people within a society may or may not have an accurate idea of how their society actually works. When there is a strike ->the immediate solution is to make sure that owners of capital make more money. Capitalism particular type of social formation dominated by a free enterprise economy that shapes everything embedded within it, but the capitalism of today is different from the capitalism in britain and 17th and 18th centuries. Global capitalism- in which business and corporate power has been overwhelmingly reasserted. Organisation for economic cooperation and development richer nations. Neo liberalism- is a policy are either unconcerned with or positively endorse inequalities. Argue that the forceful enactment of neo-liberal ideologies and politics exacerbates differences among rich and poor within the market. Undermines social factors and diminishes forms of health care designed to cure illness and disease.
