Ailsa McKay
Scottish economist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ailsa McKay was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University. She was noted for her research on gender inequalities and the economics of the welfare state, for her contributions to feminist economics, as a leading proponent of the universal basic income concept and as one of the UK's foremost experts on gender budgeting. She served as Vice Dean of the Glasgow School for Business and Society, and was also well known for her support of Scottish independence and as a key adviser to the Scottish government and First Minister Alex Salmond on economic and welfare state policies. Ailsa McKay is highlighted as a leading intellectual figure in the campaign for independence in Alex Salmond's 2015 book The Dream Shall Never Die. Both Salmond and his successor Nicola Sturgeon have highlighted McKay's influence on Scottish gender equality policies.
Ailsa McKay's Published Works
Published Works
- The end of capitalism (as we knew it): a feminist critique of political economy (1997) (369)
- Prevalences of overweight, obesity, hyperglycaemia, hypertension and dyslipidaemia in the Gulf: systematic review (2011) (161)
- Central Opioid Inhibition of Neuroendocrine Stress Responses in Pregnancy in the Rat Is Induced by the Neurosteroid Allopregnanolone (2009) (121)
- Prevalence of COPD in India: a systematic review. (2012) (101)
- Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes in the States of The Co-Operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: A Systematic Review (2012) (99)
- Rethinking Work and Income Maintenance Policy: Promoting Gender Equality Through a Citizens' Basic Income (2001) (62)
- Strategies for Tobacco Control in India: A Systematic Review (2015) (55)
- Quality of Type 2 Diabetes Management in the States of The Co-Operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: A Systematic Review (2011) (45)
- Economic Recession and Recovery in the UK: What's Gender Got to Do with It? (2013) (39)
- Clinical impact of lifestyle interventions for the prevention of diabetes: an overview of systematic reviews (2016) (36)
- Universal screening at age 1-2 years as an adjunct to cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in the UK: A cost-utility analysis. (2018) (36)
- Gender, Family, and Income Maintenance: A Feminist Case for Citizens Basic Income (2000) (35)
- The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income (2005) (28)
- Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or gender bias (2007) (25)
- Associations between active travel and adiposity in rural India and Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study (2015) (18)
- Implications of the imposition of the junior doctor contract in England (2016) (11)
- Are primary care factors associated with hospital episodes for adverse drug reactions? A national observational study (2015) (9)
- Social Security Policy (1998) (9)
- Gender mainstreaming or 'mainstreaming gender'? A question of delivering on gender equality in the new Scotland (2007) (9)
- Junior Doctors in England Strike for the First Time in 40 Years (2016) (8)
- Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care diabetes indicators and mortality in an English cohort. (2021) (8)
- Jobs for the boys and the girls: promoting a smart, successful and equal Scotland – the final report of the Scottish component of the EOC’s general formal investigation into occupational segregation. (2005) (7)
- Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and emergency hospital admissions among type 2 diabetes patients: a population-based historical cohort study (2021) (7)
- Gender budgeting in Scotland: seeking transformative change through public spending (2016) (7)
- Associations between attainment of incentivized primary care indicators and incident lower limb amputation among those with type 2 diabetes: a population-based historical cohort study (2021) (7)
- How ‘Modern’ is the Modern Apprenticeship? (2005) (6)
- Is the SMART risk prediction model ready for real-world implementation? A validation study in a routine care setting of approximately 380 000 individuals. (2021) (6)
- Advances in feminist economics in times of economic crisis (2013) (6)
- Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and incident diabetic retinopathy in England: a population-based historical cohort study (2021) (6)
- JOBS FOR THE BOYS AND THE GIRLS: PROMOTING A SMART SUCCESSFUL SCOTLAND THREE YEARS ON (2009) (5)
- FROM GENDER BLIND TO GENDER FOCUSED : RE-EVALUATING THE SCOTTISH MODERN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME (2006) (5)
- Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in India: a systematic review (2012) (4)
- Collaborative health promotion in middle and later stages of dementia. (2013) (4)
- In Place of Anxiety Social Security for the Common Weal (2014) (4)
- Supporting the UK's Workless - An International Comparative Perspective (2015) (4)
- Trends in tobacco, alcohol and branded fast-food imagery in Bollywood films, 1994-2013 (2020) (4)
- Women, inequalities and social policy (2005) (4)
- A collaborative approach to health promotion in early stage dementia. (2013) (3)
- Estimation of recurrent atherosclerotic cardiovascular event risk in patients with established cardiovascular disease: the updated SMART2 algorithm (2022) (3)
- Developing a Gender Budget Initiative A Question of Process or Policy ? Lessons Learned from the Scottish Experience (2006) (3)
- Estimated cardiovascular benefits of bempedoic acid in patients with established cardiovascular disease (2021) (3)
- Welfare to work' or a welfare system that works?: arguing for a citizens basic income in a new Scotland (2013) (3)
- The Legacy of Gender Mainstreaming within the Scottish Structural Funds Programme 2007-2013 Final Report (2014) (2)
- Public procurement and the public sector equality duty: equality sensitive tendering in Scotland (2016) (2)
- Cycle training and factors associated with cycling among adolescents in England (2020) (2)
- Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple (2014) (2)
- Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics (2014) (2)
- Associations between attainment of incentivized primary care indicators and incident sight‐threatening diabetic retinopathy in England: A population‐based historical cohort study (2021) (1)
- Arguing for a citizens basic income: a contribution from a feminist economics perspective (2000) (1)
- Assessing the external validity of the SAFEHEART risk prediction model in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia in an English routine care cohort. (2022) (1)
- Promoting gender equity through a basic income (2013) (1)
- Scotland and the Great Recession: An Analysis of the Gender Impact (2013) (1)
- The divergence of minimum unit pricing policy across the UK: opportunities for public health policy development (2017) (1)
- Maternal aggression elicits Fos expression in the rat brain (2006) (1)
- Allopregnanolone (AP) induces opioid inhibition of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in pregnancy (2005) (1)
- WiSE and Save the Children Briefing Sheet September 2012 Child Poverty and Mothers Employment Patterns – Exploring Trends (2012) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2015) (0)
- Author response for "Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and incident sight‐threatening diabetic retinopathy in the United Kingdom: A population‐based historical cohort study" (2020) (0)
- WISE Briefing Sheet: Where are women in Scotland's labour market? (2013) (0)
- WISE Briefing Sheet: How Modern is the Modern Apprenticeship Programme in Scotland? (2013) (0)
- This briefing paper aims to explore levels of female participation in the Modern Apprenticeship (MA) programme since 2008 and identify whether patterns of occupational segregation perpetuate within the MA programme. (2013) (0)
- Social security or income maintenance policy? A question of definitions (2005) (0)
- WISE Briefing Sheet: Child Poverty and Mothers Employment Patterns - Exploring Trends (2012) (0)
- One Advances in Feminist Economics in Times of Economic Crisis (2014) (0)
- Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez, and Helena Machado. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2009. 298 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7264-7 (hbk.). US$99.95 (2011) (0)
- Assessment of liver disease in Tower Hamlets, London, UK: foundation for integrated solutions (2014) (0)
- Promoting gender equality in the new Scotland: rhetoric not reality (2009) (0)
- Management of a patient at high risk of type 2 diabetes (2016) (0)
- Crisis, Cuts, Citizenship and a Basic Income: A Wicked Solution to a Wicked Problem (2013) (0)
- The Gendered Impact of Recession and Recovery: Has Devolution Made A Difference For Women in Scotland? (2011) (0)
- Central vasopressin signalling and aggressive behaviour (2008) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2014) (0)
- Arguing for a citizen's basic income in a new Scotland (2013) (0)
- IS SAFEHEART ‘SAFE’ TO EXTEND TO OTHER POPULATIONS?: ASSESSMENT OF SAFEHEART RISK PREDICTION MODEL EXTERNAL VALIDITY AMONG AN ENGLISH COHORT OF ROUTINE FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLAEMIA PARTICIPANTS (2022) (0)
- reactions ? A national observational study hospital episodes for adverse drug Are primary care factors associated with and (2015) (0)
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