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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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Addressing widening income inequality through community development
TL;DR: An overview of the history, causes, and current implications for the community development field of widening income inequality in America can be found in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the impact of inequality on community development.
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We Are Boiling: Management Scholars Speaking Out on COVID-19 and Social Justice
Ana Maria Peredo,Samer Abdelnour,Paul Adler,Bobby Banerjee,Hari Bapuji,Marta B. Calás,Ekaterina Chertkovskaya,Rick Colbourne,Alessia Contu,Andrew Crane,Michelle Evans,Paul M. Hirsch,Arturo E. Osorio,Banu Ozkazanc-Pan,Linda Smircich,Gabriel Weber +15 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors draw attention to the way that the pandemic has highlighted long-standing examples of injustice, from inequality to racism, gender, and social discrimination through environmental injustice to migratory workers and modern slaves.
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Protéger les personnes vulnérables : une exigence éthique à clarifier
TL;DR: Il propose ensuite une definition of the vulnerabilite comme risque accru de subir un tort and examine comment cette definition pourrait s’appliquer aux cas clairs ainsi qu’aux cas controverses de vulnerabilites.
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Creating Participatory Democratic Decision-Making in Local Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify nine foundational elements of participatory democratic decisional processes and contrast these characteristics with the processes used in representative democratic systems of decision-making, along these nine dimensions.
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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.