Obesity, business and public policy
By: edited by Zoltan J. Acs, Alan Lyles ; in collaboration with Kenneth R. Stanton
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781849801430
Subjects: Obesity; Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The spread of obesity  -- David B. Audretsch and Dawne DiOrio; title: The economics of childhood obesity policy  -- John Cawley; title: Obesity, poverty and diversity : theoretical and strategic challenges  -- Lenneal J. Henderson; title: The labor market impact of obesity  -- John H. Cawley; title: Mixed messages in marketing communications about food and obesity  -- Stephen J. Gould and Fiona Sussan; title: Weight control, private health insurance and public policies  -- Alan Lyles and Ann Cotten; title: The infrastructure of obesity  -- Zoltan J. Acs, Ann Cotten and Kenneth R. Stanton; title: Federal communication about obesity in the Dietary Guidelines and checkoff programs  -- Parke E. Wilde; title: Tax solutions to the external costs of obesity  -- Julie Ann Elston, Kenneth R. Stanton, David T. Levy and Zoltan J. Acs; title: Tobacco control as a model for trimming the obesity problem  -- David T. Levy and Marilyn Oblak; title: Perspectives on the economic and cultural effects of obesity litigation : lessons from Pelman v McDonald's  -- José Felipé Anderson; title: A policy framework for confronting obesity -- Zoltan J. Acs, Lenneal J. Henderson, David T. Levy, Alan Lyles and Kenneth R. Stanton.