Private Profits Versus Public Policy

Author : Joel Lexchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1442619600

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"The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren't the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit? In his new work, Private Profits versus Public Policy, Joel Lexchin addresses this question as he examines how public policy with respect to the pharmaceutical industry has evolved in Canada over the past half century. Although the Canadian government is supposed to regulate the industry to serve the needs of public health, waves of deregulatory reforms and intellectual property rights legislation have shifted the balance of power in favour of these companies' quest for profit. Joel Lexchin offers a series of recommendations to tip the scale back in the public's favour. This enlightening work is the first book that deals exclusively with the pharmaceutical industry in Canada in over thirty years."--

Author : Joel Lexchin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442619616

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Private Profits versus Public Policy by Joel Lexchin Pdf

The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren’t the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit? In his new work, Private Profits versus Public Policy, Joel Lexchin addresses this question as he examines how public policy with respect to the pharmaceutical industry has evolved in Canada over the past half century. Although the Canadian government is supposed to regulate the industry to serve the needs of public health, waves of deregulatory reforms and intellectual property rights legislation have shifted the balance of power in favour of these companies’ quest for profit. Joel Lexchin offers a series of recommendations to tip the scale back in the public’s favour. This enlightening work is the first book that deals exclusively with the pharmaceutical industry in Canada in over thirty years.

Author : Robert A. Leone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040350824

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Who Profits? by Robert A. Leone Pdf

A Harvard economist shows how all public policies create winners and losers in the marketplace and how corporate managers and policy makers can use this knowledge to maximize their gains and minimize their losses.

Author : Paul W. Macavoy,W.T. Stanbury,George Yarrow,Richard Zeckhauser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401174299

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Privatization and State-Owned Enterprises by Paul W. Macavoy,W.T. Stanbury,George Yarrow,Richard Zeckhauser Pdf

The book is divided into three major sections. The first presents a theoretical discussion that underlies the other essays. The second section deals with privatization issues from the perspective of the United States. The third describes research addressed to the U. K. and Canada. In the first chapter, Richard Zeckbauser and Murray Horn develop a wide-ranging theoretical framework for assessing the capabilities and role of state-owned enterprises; it provides a foundation for the analyses that follow. In The Control and Perfonnance o[ State-Owned Enterprises , they describe state-owned enterprises as an extreme case of the separation of ownership and control. The focus is on management --the incentives it faces and the conflicts to which it is subjected. The distinguishing characteristics of public enterprise, the authors suggest, give it a comparative advantage over both public bureaucracy and private enterprise in certain situations. They argue that legislators are more likely to prefer SOEs over private enterprise when the efficiency of private enterprise is undermined by regulation or the tbreat of opportunistic state action, when the informational demands of subsidizing private production to meet distributional objectives are high, when it is difficult to assign property rights, or when state ownership is ideologically appealing. These considerations suggest why SOEs are usually assigned special rights and responsibilities, and they help explain observed regularities in the distribution of SOEs across countries and sectors. Zeckhauser and Horn apply principal-agent theory to identify the key factors underlying the performance of state-owned enterprises.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Implications of For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309036436

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For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Implications of For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care Pdf

"[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Author : Joel Lexchin, MD
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459412453

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Doctors in Denial by Joel Lexchin, MD Pdf

Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant, wealthy multinationals influence how medical students are trained and receive information, how research is done in hospitals and universities, what is published in leading medical journals, what drugs are approved, and what patients expect when they go into their doctors' offices. But almost all doctors deny the influence and control the drug companies exert. In this book Dr. Lexchin urges the medical profession to make the changes needed to give priority to protecting and promoting patients' health and benefitting society, rather than enabling Big Pharma to dominate health care while raking in billions in profits from citizens and governments.

Author : Tasha Fairfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107088375

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Private Wealth and Public Revenue by Tasha Fairfield Pdf

This book identifies sources of power that help business and economic elites influence policy decisions.

Author : Raisa B. Deber,Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Publisher : [Saskatoon] : Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health care form
ISBN : 066232787X

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Delivering Health Care Services by Raisa B. Deber,Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada Pdf

Author : Mervyn A. King
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall ; New York : Wiley
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Corporations
ISBN : UOM:39015010837006

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Public Policy and the Corporation by Mervyn A. King Pdf

Author : John Butcher,David Gilchrist
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760460396

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The Three Sector Solution by John Butcher,David Gilchrist Pdf

This collection of essays had its origins in a one-day workshop held in August 2015 at The Australian National University. Jointly convened by Dr John Butcher (ANZSOG) and Professor David Gilchrist (Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative) the purpose of the workshop was to bring together academic researchers, policy practitioners and thought leaders to address a variety of emerging issues facing policymakers, public sector commissioners, not-for-profit providers of publicly funded services, and businesses interested in opportunities for social investment. The workshop itself generated a great deal of interest and a ‘baker’s dozen’ of contributors challenged and engaged a full house. The level of enthusiasm shown by the audience for the subject matter was such that the decision to curate the presentations in the form of a book was never in doubt. The editors trust that this volume will vindicate that decision. At one time the state exercised a near monopoly in the delivery of social programs. Today, almost every important public problem is a three sector problem and yet we have little idea of what a high-performing three sector production system looks like. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will provide a foundation for some answers to these important public policy questions.

Author : Markus Kaltenborn,Markus Krajewski,Heike Kuhn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9783030304690

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Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights by Markus Kaltenborn,Markus Krajewski,Heike Kuhn Pdf

This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches but also seeks to close gaps which would remain if only one perspective would be at the center of the discussions. Specifically, the book shows the strong connections between human rights and the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Already the preamble of this document explicitly states that "the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ... seek to realise the human rights of all". Moreover, several goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda correspond to already existing individual human rights obligations. The contributions of this volume therefore also address how the implementation of human rights and SDGs can reinforce each other, but also point to critical shortcomings of the different approaches.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:$B87540

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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Joel Bakan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439134948

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The Corporation by Joel Bakan Pdf

The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Corporation contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality, whose destructive behavior, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world’s dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies. In this revolutionary assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business corporation, Bakan backs his premise with the following observations: -The corporation’s legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others. -The corporation’s unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal. -Governments have freed the corporation, despite its flawed character, from legal constraints through deregulation and granted it ever greater authority over society through privatization. But Bakan believes change is possible and he outlines a far-reaching program of achievable reforms through legal regulation and democratic control. Featuring in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and cultural critic Noam Chomsky, The Corporation is an extraordinary work that will educate and enlighten students, CEOs, whistle-blowers, power brokers, pawns, pundits, and politicians alike.

Author : J. Kendrick Kinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053479952

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A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court of the State of Illinois by J. Kendrick Kinney Pdf

Author : Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262681145

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Public-private Policy Partnerships by Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau Pdf

The first book to evaluate public-private partnerships in a broad range of policy areas.