| 书目名称 | HEAVY! | | 副标题 | The Surprising Reaso | | 编辑 | Richard B. McKenzie | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The book provides an accessible discussion of America‘s weight gain. It provides a variety of surprising reasons for the country‘s (and world‘s) weight gain (relating to the growth in world trade free | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .America’s emerging “fat war” threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim Americans against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over “fat taxes” and “fat bans.” These “fat policies” would be designed to constrain what people eat and drink – and theoretically crimp the growth in 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. It also 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 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 | | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | | 关键词 | Fat; Fat taxes; Fat war; Obesity; Overweight | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20135-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-20134-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-20135-6 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 |
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