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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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Re-envisioning the status quo: Developing sustainable approaches to outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand
TL;DR: P a g e | i | i as mentioned in this paper, p a g ǫ, p à  à n à Á Ã, Ã.
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The Public Policy Approach: Governments, Institutions, Welfare States and Social Justice
Abstract: The twentieth century was, for many reasons, the age of successful public policy making. With the firm establishment of the nation-state in a colonialised context of the nineteenth century, the welfare state in its many guises emerged in the last century of the second millennium. The successes of the welfare state, and as a corollary the success of public policy in preventing disease and promoting health, has been undeniable.
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Valuing Our National Parks: An Ecological Economics Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a simple benefits transfer valuation of the United States national parks using National Land Cover Data from 2011 and ecosystem service values determined by Costanza et al. This produces an estimate suggesting the parks provide $98 billion/year in ecosystem service value.
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The New Economy and Youth Justice
TL;DR: In this article, the shape of the contemporary political economy and its effects on the young people and adults who are involved in the "deep end" of the youth justice system are discussed.
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The Educational Leader Without Borders: The Conceptual Frame
TL;DR: The authors examines the role of the educational leader without borders (ELWB) and the connections these leaders have to humanity in the lives of children and their families through the schooling process, and explores the relationship between social justice complexities and global schooling practices that define education as a basic human right.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
TL;DR: In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives as discussed by the authors, which is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research.
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
TL;DR: The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer.
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Cross-Country Determinants of Life Satisfaction: Exploring Different Determinants Across Groups in Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries and show that only a small number of factors, such as openness, business climate, postcommunism, the number of chambers in parliament, Christian majority, and infant mortality robustly influence life satisfaction across countries.
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of fractionalization for the creation of social trust is examined and the determinants of trust can be divided into two categories: those affecting individuals' trust radii and those affecting social polarization.
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
John Gerring,Strom C. Thacker +1 more
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.