A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The panel-data approach used to generate these results assumes that either there is no substantial migration response to temporary changes in local economic conditions, or that any...

State intervention and the west's long depression -- The state and neoliberalism -- Capital dependency: the high flyers -- Labour markets in Britain and USA -- The rise in state-dependent employment: the education sector -- The rise in state-dependent employment: health and social care -- 'Buy...