The Public and Nonprofit Sectors: An Alternative to Corporate Control

The practices of the pharmaceutical, unhealthy food and automobile industries contribute to premature deaths and preventable illnesses and injuries throughout the world.  One strategy for reducing these burdens is to strengthen the public and non-profit sectors.  This can create alternative healthier sources for needed goods and services, put pressure on the market sector to address health externalities more directly, and make the common good a higher public goal than profitability. The posts illustrate ways to grow this sector in pharmaceuticals, food, and transportation.