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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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Towards a cross-cultural lexical map of wellbeing
TL;DR: In this paper, positive psychology has been critiqued as Western-centric, influenced by the mostly Western contexts in which it has developed and English is its dominant mode of discourse, which has sha...
“It’s Like a Mountain”: The Lived Experience of Homeless College Students
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the experience of college for homeless students using a phenomenological approach and find that they experience physical, emotional and interpersonal challenges that hinder their ability to perform in school even though they are motivated to attain a college degree that they think will enable them to escape homelessness and find a job that will provide stability and security.
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Is There a Link between Welfare Regime and Attitudes toward Climate Policy Instruments
Jukka Sivonen,Iida Kukkonen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between welfare regime and climate policy attitudes, and found that social and environmental policies can reinforce each other, thus, more universal and more sustainable policies can be adopted.
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The effects of community income inequality on health: Evidence from a randomized control trial in the Bolivian Amazon.
TL;DR: Evidence suggests increased work efforts among better-off households when the lot of the poor improved, possibly due to a preference for rank preservation, points to new paths by which inequality might affect health.
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Solving the paradox of mass investment: expertise, financial inclusion and inequality in the politics of credit
TL;DR: The Ownership Society of the late twentieth century was grounded on the promise that the opening of new investment opportunities would lead to financial expansion and inclusion as mentioned in this paper, which resulted, instea...
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
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TL;DR: The authors found that open international trade policies, low-inflation macroeconomic environments, and market-oriented property rights regimes promote human development across the world, even when controlling for countries' economic performance.