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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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Broad-based Worker Ownership and Profit Sharing: Can These Ideas Work in the Entire Economy?
TL;DR: Worker ownership and profit sharing in American society has been examined in this article, showing that much more worker ownership is possible and attainable but that a common explanation of why it is unattainable, that individuals and organizations find it hard to bring it about, is not really the major barrier.
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Epistemology of empirical research: the case of the consequences of the Romanian neo-liberal “Healthcare” law
TL;DR: In this article, an epistemological essay giving also the occasion to include the principle of comparative studies concerning the consequences of neo-liberal "reforms" (here, in health care).
Measurement of Income Inequality Re-Examined : Constructing Experimental Tests by Questionnaire
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a quantitative questionnaire repeated after Amiel and Cowell, combined with qualitative interviews with selected respondents, were analyzed to learn ordinary people's perception of income inequality.
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Subjectivity, Aesthetics, and the Nexus of Injustice: From Traditional to Street Art
TL;DR: In this article, the possibilities and limitations of aesthetics in the arts are discussed and three different types of injustices are highlighted and related to subjectivity and the arts: representation, recognition, interaction, and subjectification.
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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.