Transforming Capitalism, From Top Down to Bottom Up; A Response to the Recent Commentaries

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Globalization and Health Equity, Faculty of Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Transforming Capitalism, From Top Down to Bottom Up; A Response to the Recent Commentaries

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With ever-larger swathes of the world aflame (both literally and socio-politically) the need for a now official “post-pandemic” economic transformation is glaringly apparent. I hoped my article outlining what COVID-19 had placed on offer1 would stimulate debate and apparently it did, although sometimes coming from different starting assumptions. I begin my response with de Soysa2 and close with Waitzkin,3 the two commentaries representing the most robust and near polar opposites. Several of the other commentaries offer complementary insights. ...(Read more...)

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  • Receive Date: 08 November 2023
  • Accept Date: 08 November 2023
  • First Publish Date: 12 November 2023

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