The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism: How the IMF Has Undermined Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS

by Rick Rowden

Book Overview

'The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism' explores the history of and current collision between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of neoliberal economic ideas. The book explains not only how IMF policies of restrictive spending have exacerbated public health problems in developing countries, in particular the HIV/AIDS crisis, but also how such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848132859
• ISBN13: 9781848132856
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"