Introduction: the surveillance- industrial complex: towards a political economy of surveillance?

2013 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Industrial Complex

The Health Economic-Industrial Complex (HEIC) and a New Public Health Perspective

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Gomes Temporão ◽  
Carlos Augusto Grabois Gadelha
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Economic ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
Universal Health

The health economic-industrial complex concept was developed in Brazil in the early 2000s, integrating a structuralist view of the political economy with a public health vision. This perspective advances, in relation to sectoral approaches in health industries and services, toward a systemic approach to the productive environment, focusing on the dimensions of innovation and universal access to health. Health production is seen in an interdependent way, recognizing that the different industrial and service sectors have strong articulations that need to be integrated. The shift toward a universal care model that focuses on human and social needs requires a productive knowledge base that favors promotion, prevention, and local and permanent healthcare, requiring new productive patterns of goods and services and innovation. Therefore, these dimensions are not conceptually apart from each other, considering an analytical and political point of view. The production, care, and sustainability of universal health systems are understood in an integrated and systemic way. Within this vision, a cognitive leap is presented in relation to the traditional health economics, linked to the allocation of scarce resources, to a vision of health political economy that favors the development, expansion, and transformation of the health system and its economic and industrial base. Health is conceived as a moral right of citizenship and a vital space for the development of countries (and for global health), generating social inclusion, equity, innovation, and a possibility for the cooperation between countries and peoples. The Brazilian experience is an exemplary case of association between the development of theoretical conception and its implementation in the national health policy that led to the link between economic development policies and social policies. It was possible to advance both conceptually in terms of a vision of health and social well-being and in contributing to a new paradigm of public policies. This perspective allowed the guidance of guide industrial development and services toward the human needs and universal health systems, considering the challenges brought by the context of an ongoing fourth technological revolution.

The Many Lines of Defense: The Political Economy of US Defense Acquisition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Gholz ◽  
Harvey M Sapolsky
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Defense Acquisition ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Military

Abstract Political economy infuses the process that generates military power, notably including weapons acquisition. In the United States, defense acquisition follows a dynamic balance of interests among the private companies that design and build weapons, the military services that use weapons, and the legislators that appropriate money to pay for weapons. That process belies the simplistic conventional wisdoms that explain acquisition as a direct result of strategic need or as dictated by a unified military-industrial complex. A political economy approach that recognizes the complexity of interests—public and private, expert and political—best explains what weapons get built, by whom, where, and when.

Theorizing the carceral: Political economy, critical geography, and criminology

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Shantz
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminological Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Prison Industrial Complex ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Contemporary Context

This review essay examines new works by Hadar Aviram on the political economy of penal policies and Dominique Moran on carceral geographies. It discusses how these works offer significant insights for understanding emerging policies and practices of the prison–industrial complex in conditions of neoliberal capitalism. An assessment of these works, in relation to some pressing real-world issues, suggests that new theorizing around the political economy of criminal justice systems and critical geographies of punitive practices makes important contributions to revitalizing criminological theory in the contemporary context.

scholarly journals Prenatal Nondiscrimination Laws: Disability, Social Conservatism, and the Political Economy of Genetic Screening

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Denbow
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Conservatism

This article analyzes recent state laws and legislative debates in the United States concerning the prohibition of abortions performed because of a diagnosis of fetal disability. The article brings together critical theories to analyze the legislative records—including floor debates and committee hearings—in the four states that enacted disability PRENDAs before 2019. This analysis shows how social conservatives use disability PRENDAs to present themselves as the protector of the oppressed, while advancing their views about family and gender. Furthermore, I argue that PRENDAs place the burden for structural economic and political concerns on the shoulders of individuals, especially pregnant persons, while largely ignoring the medical-industrial complex as well as the government's own poor funding of social services for people with disabilities. Critical attention thus needs to be paid to how factors such as the ascendancy of genetics, the privatization of medicine, and the state's facilitation of capital accumulation for biotechnology corporations help constitute the ideal self-regulating risk-averse pregnant neoliberal subject. To bring attention to these factors, the article examines the political economy of non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPTs).

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