The Body Economic: Eight experiments in economic recovery, from Iceland to Greece (Paperback)
  • The Body Economic: Eight experiments in economic recovery, from Iceland to Greece (Paperback)
zoom

The Body Economic: Eight experiments in economic recovery, from Iceland to Greece (Paperback)

(author), (author)
2 Reviews Sign in to write a review
£15.99
Paperback 240 Pages
Published: 05/06/2014
  • 5+ in stock

Usually dispatched within 1-2 working days

  • This item has been added to your basket

The Body Economic is the first, agenda-shaping, look at the human costs of financial crisis - the culmination of ten years' work by two pioneering researchers - Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler

The global financial crisis has had a seismic impact upon the wealth of nations. But we have little sense of how it affects one of the most fundamental issues of all: our physical and mental health.

The Body Economic puts forward a radical proposition. Austerity, it argues, is seriously bad for your health. We can prevent financial crises from becoming epidemics, but to do so, we must acknowledge what the hard data tells us: that, throughout history, there is a causal link between the strength of a community's health and its social protection systems. Even amid the worst economic disasters, negative public health effects are not inevitable: it's how communities respond to challenges of debt and market turmoil that counts. Now and for generations to come, our commitment to the building of fairer, more equal societies will determine the health of our body economic.

'Explosive ... powerful. Backed by a decade of research, and based on reams of publicly available data' Guardian

'A powerful indictment of the unnecessary suffering and rising mortality rates associated with austerity policies unsoftened by remedial social programmes' Financial Times

David Stuckler is a Senior Research Leader at Oxford University. He has published over one-hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles in major journals on the subjects of economics and global health, and his work has featured on the cover of The New York Times and The Economist, as well as on BBC, NPR, and CNN, among others.

Sanjay Basu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an epidemiologist at Stanford University. He has worked with Oxfam International and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. His work has featured in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and he has written over 80 peer-reviewed articles.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141976020
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 179 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm

You may also be interested in...

Handbook of Health Economics Volume 2
Added to basket
Introduction to Health Economics
Added to basket
Caring for Our Own
Added to basket
The Great Escape
Added to basket
Paperback
£15.99
The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics
Added to basket
Health Economics
Added to basket

“The Devastating Effect of Austerity on our Health”

The Body Economic by medical researchers David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu is a succinct, occasionally dry (at least to a layman like myself) yet ultimately enlightening polemic that attempts to prove that austerity in... More

Paperback edition
Helpful? Upvote 69

“The Devastating Effect Of Austerity On Our Health”

The Body Economic by medical researchers David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu is a succinct, occasionally dry (at least to a layman like myself) yet ultimately enlightening polemic that attempts to prove that austerity in... More

Paperback edition
Helpful? Upvote 61

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.