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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard B. McKenziePublisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Country of Publication: Germany Edition: 2012 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.473kg ISBN: 9783642201349ISBN 10: 3642201342 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 05 October 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews* America's emerging fat war threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim American's against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over fat taxes and fat bans, all designed to constrain what people eat and drink -- and thereby crimp the growth in the Americans waistlines and in the country's healthcare costs. Richard McKenzie's HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free -- And The Home of the Fat offers new insight into the economic causes and consequences of America's dramatic weight gain over the past half century and more. The book documents a variety of surprising reasons for the country's (and world's) weight gain. McKenzie controversially links America's weight gain to a variety of causes: * the growth in world trade freedom, * the downfall of communism, * the spread of free-market economics, * the rise of women's liberation, * the long-term fall in real minimum wage, * and the rise of competitive markets on a global scale. In no small way -- no, in a very BIG way -- America is the home of the fat because it has been for so long the land of the free. Americans' economic, if not political, freedoms, however, will come under siege as well-meaning groups within the fat industrial complex seek to impose their dietary, health, and healthcare values on everyone else. Without question, America has become the land of the heavies, with two-thirds of all adults now overweight or obese, with their added weight equaling more than three million tons over what American adults weighed in 1960. Americans' added tonnage equals 34 million 1960-equivalent adults that Americans today carry on their backsides and around their girths. HEAVY! details the unheralded consequences of the country's weight gain, which include greater fuel consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases, reduced fuel efficiency of cars and planes, growth in health insurance costs and fewer insured Americans, reductions in the wages of heavy people, and required reinforcement of rescue equipment and hospital operating tables. In HEAVY! Richard McKenzie uncovers the follies of seeking to remedy the country's weight problems with government intrusions into people's excess eating, arguing that controlling people's eating habits is fundamentally different from controlling people's smoking habits. McKenzie advocates a strong free-market solution to how Americas's weight problems should and should not be solved. For Americans to retain their cherished economic freedoms of choice, heavy people must be held fully responsible for their weight-related costs and not be allowed to shift blame for their weight to their genes or environment. Allowing heavy Americans to shift responsibility for their weight gain can only exacerbate the country's weight problems. * America's emerging fat war threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim American's against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over fat taxes and fat ban's, all designed to constrain what people eat and drink -- and thereby crimp the growth in the Americans waistlines and in the country's healthcare costs. Richard McKenzie's HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free -- And The Home of the Fat provides an accessible discussion of the economic causes and consequences of America's dramatic weight gain over the past half century and more. It documents a variety of surprising reasons for the country's (and world's) weight gain, relating weight gain to the growth in world trade freedom, the downfall of communism, the spread of free-market economics, the rise of women's liberation, the long-term fall in real minimum wage, and the rise of competitive markets on a global scale. In no small way -- no, in a very BIG way -- America is the home of the fat because it has been for so long the land of the free. Americans' economic, if not political, freedoms, however, will come under siege as well-meaning groups within the fat industrial complex seek to impose their dietary, health, and healthcare values on everyone else. * Without question, America has become the land of the heavies, with two-thirds of all adults now overweight or obese, with their added weight equaling more than three million tons over what American adults weighed in 1960. Americans' added tonnage equals 34 million 1960-equivalent adults that are being carried around by adult Americans today on their backsides and around their girths. Heavy! details the unheralded consequences of the country's weight gain, which include greater fuel consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases, reduced fuel efficiency of cars and planes, growth in health insurance costs and fewer insured Americans, reductions in the wages of heavy people, and required reinforcement of rescue equipment and hospital operating tables. * In HEAVY! Richard McKenzie uncovers the follies of seeking to remedy the country's weight problems with government intrusions into people's excess eating, arguing that controlling people's eating habits is fundamentally different from controlling people's smoking habits. In HEAVY! McKenzie takes a decidedly free-market bent on how the country's weight problems should and should not be solved, with a concluding major theme being that in order for Americans to retain their cherished economic freedoms of choice, heavy people must be held fully responsible for their weight-related costs and not be allowed to shift blame for their weight to their genes or environment. Such a shift in responsibility for weight gain can only exacerbate the country's weight problems. Richard McKenzie's HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free -- And The Home of the Fat provides an accessible discussion of the economic causes and consequences of America's dramatic weight gain over the past half century and more. It documents a variety of surprising reasons for the country's (and world's) weight gain, relating weight gain to the growth in world trade freedom, the downfall of communism, the spread of free-market economics, the rise of women's liberation, the long-term fall in real minimum wage, and the rise of competitive markets on a global scale. In no small way -- no, in a very BIG way -- America is the home of the fat because it has been for so long the land of the free. Americans' economic, if not political, freedoms, however, will come under siege as well-meaning groups within the fat industrial complex seek to impose their dietary, health, and healthcare values on everyone else. * Without question, America has become the land of the heavies, with two-thirds of all adults now overweight or obese, with their added weight equaling more than three million tons over what American adults weighed in 1960. Americans' added tonnage equals 34 million 1960-equivalent adults that are being carried around by adult Americans today on their backsides and around their girths. Heavy! details the unheralded consequences of the country's weight gain, which include greater fuel consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases, reduced fuel efficiency of cars and planes, growth in health insurance costs and fewer insured Americans, reductions in the wages of heavy people, and required reinforcement of rescue equipment and hospital operating tables. * In HEAVY! Richard McKenzie uncovers the follies of seeking to remedy the country's weight problems with government intrusions into people's excess eating, arguing that controlling people's eating habits is fundamentally different from controlling people's smoking habits. In HEAVY! McKenzie takes a decidedly free-market bent on how the country's weight problems should and should not be solved, with a concluding major theme being that in order for Americans to retain their cherished economic freedoms of choice, heavy people must be held fully responsible for their weight-related costs and not be allowed to shift blame for their weight to their genes or environment. Such a shift in responsibility for weight gain can only exacerbate the country's weight problems. * In HEAVY! Richard McKenzie uncovers the follies of seeking to remedy the country's weight problems with government intrusions into people's excess eating, arguing that controlling people's eating habits is fundamentally different from controlling people's smoking habits. In HEAVY! McKenzie takes a decidedly free-market bent on how the country's weight problems should and should not be solved, with a concluding major theme being that in order for Americans to retain their cherished economic freedoms of choice, heavy people must be held fully responsible for their weight-related costs and not be allowed to shift blame for their weight to their genes or environment. Such a shift in responsibility for weight gain can only exacerbate the country's weight problems. Author InformationRichard McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Economics and Management in the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He has written over thirty books, several of which have been written for general audiences, including The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage (Basic Books 1996 and Dickens Press 2006), Getting Rich in America: Eight Simple Rules for Building a Fortune and a Satisfying Life (Harper 1998) and Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies, And Other Pricing Puzzles (Springer 2008). His most recent strictly academic books include Predictably Rational? In Search of Defenses of Rational Behavior in Economics (Springer 2010) and In Defense of Monopoly: How Market Power Fosters creative Production (with Dwight Lee, University of Michigan Press, 2008). He is also co-author of a widely used textbook, Microeconomics for MBAs: The Economic Way of Thinking for Managers. His book with Gordon Tullock, The New World of Economics, which has been used over the years in most of the country's leading colleges and universities and has been translated into several languages, will be published in a revived sixth edition in 2011. Professor McKenzie has written any number of public policy commentaries carried in national and major regional newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Reader's Digest. Finally, he has produced a PBS-syndicated documentary Homecoming: The Forgotten World of America's Orphanages Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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