The right chemistry
“Do we have anything for a serious case of chronic CEO?” Boots was the most trusted brand for decades – Victorian values and all. Now it has slipped down the …
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The NHS is a society rather than an economy
If markets or management aren’t the remedy to the NHS mess, what is? Valerie Iles sees an answer coming from unexpected quarters. In the previous issue of Mint Magazine Laurie …
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Health economics: a prognosis
Is established thinking in economics up to the challenges presented by healthcare provision? Geoffrey M. Hodgson conducts and examination. “Health economics would seem to be a perfect topic for heterodox …
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There has always been an alternative
The NHS crisis is a crisis of neoliberalism writes Laurie Laybourn-Langton This year, the National Health Service turns seventy, finding itself in a world radically different to that which welcomed …
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Symptoms of growth addiction: bad housing, bad health and Donald Trump?
In this issue we focus on the economics of two issues that have dominated our politics for decades: health and housing. The health of the NHS is maybe our …
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Your word is your bond
Blott: “I didn’t choose glue so much as it chose me.” Tony Blott runs a glue supply company having directed an NHS trust. He sees little difference in many ways …
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He who pays the piper
Baker: his message struggles to be heard because a lot of money goes into calling the other tune. Dean Baker explains how calls for a new type of market – …
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From the mouth of death
In the first of a series of pieces on people and their relationship with work we look at the trajectory taken by Jena Al-Bazi from her birthplace in Iraq …
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