Using data for England and Wales during the years 1840–2000, a negative relation is found between economic growth – measured by the rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) – and health progress – as indexed by the annual increase in life expectancy at birth (LEB). That is, the...

Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usually conceived as related to economic growth, especially in the long run. In this investigation it is shown that economic growth is positively associated with health progress in Sweden...

Resumen Se comenta la visión del comercio y de la economía mundial de dos autores representativos de corrientes significativas del pensamiento económico actual, Ha-Joon Chang y Michael Spence, y se presenta un bosquejo de una visión alternativa. En la visión poskeynesiana de Chang, la...

Recent publications have argued that the welfare state is an important determinant of population health, and that social democracy in office and higher levels of health expenditure promote health progress. In the period 1950-2000, Greece, Portugal, and Spain were the poorest market economies in...

Data on 251 quarters of the U.S. economy show that recessions are preceded by declines in profits. Profits stop growing and start falling four or five quarters before a recession. They strongly recover immediately after the recession. Since investment is to a large extent determined by...