The health of nations : why inequality is harmful to your health /
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| Author / Creator: | Kawachi, Ichirò„. |
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| Imprint: | New York : New Press : [Distributed by W.W. Norton], 2002. |
| Description: | viii, 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4740269 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.. Economic Goals and "The Permanent Problem of the Human Race"
- Living in the Material World
- Unbalanced Consumption: The Case of World Hunger
- "The Permanent Problem of the Human Race"
- Judging the Great American Growth Machine
- 2.. Prosperity and Happiness
- Does Money Buy Happiness?
- Why Happiness Is Not Enough
- 3.. Prosperity and Health
- The Health of Nations
- The Relative Income Hypothesis
- Poverty as a Relative Concept
- What Explains Socioeconomic Differences in Health?
- 4.. Keeping up with the [Dow] Joneses
- Prosperity and the Rise of Consumer Society
- Critiques of the Consumer Culture
- Consumer Culture and Consumer Debt
- Consumer Debt and the Charity Crunch
- 5.. Inequality: The Private and Public Price We Pay
- Is Inequality Good for Productivity?
- Winner-Take-All Markets
- The Dysfunctions of Inequality: A Rebuttal to Davis and Moore
- Inequality and Death Revisited
- 6.. Stepping on the Hedonic Treadmill
- Working Harder, Feeling Worse
- The Time Squeeze
- Spending Time with Your Loved Ones Can Improve Your Health
- Failing to Achieve the American Dream: The Costs of Social Exclusion
- 7.. The Social Costs of Consumption
- Material Goods and Positional Goods
- Positional Competition
- Suburban Sprawl
- The Rise of Gated Communities
- The Roseto Effect
- Recapitulation
- 8.. Politics and Health
- The Politics of Rich and Poor
- Political Ideology and Health
- Inequalities in Political Participation
- Social Capital and Political Participation
- Social Capital and Health
- Income Inequality and Social Capital
- 9.. Conclusion
- References
- Index
