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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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Attitudes towards inheritance taxation - results from a survey experiment
TL;DR: In this article, a survey experiment with vignettes on a sample of German citizens (N = 479) examined attitudes towards inheritance taxation and revealed several relevant dimensions for a proposed fair inheritance tax rate (PITR).
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Political identity and moral education: A response to Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind
TL;DR: The authors argue that fairness and relief of suffering are more fundamental values than authority and loyalty, which are virtues only if their objects are worthy, and that moral education programs must also encourage students to recognize some values as more urgent than others, and permit inquiry into the actual reasons for political behavior other than professed value commitments.
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The whiteness of white-collar crime in the United States: Examining the role of race in a culture of elite white-collar offending:
Tracy Sohoni,Melissa Rorie +1 more
TL;DR: While the role of race has been heavily scrutinized in terms of minority involvement in crime, it has remained largely invisible for Whites despite indications that Whites are overrepresented as of as discussed by the authors.
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People Create Health: Effective Health Promotion is a Creative Process.
TL;DR: It is suggested that health, happiness, and meaning can be cultivated by a complex adaptive process that enhances healthy functioning, plasticity and self-transcendent values.
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Tax Policy for a New Era: Promoting Economic Growth and Fairness
Kevin Milligan,Kevin Milligan +1 more
TL;DR: Tax Policy for a New Era: Promoting Economic Growth and Fairness as mentioned in this paper proposes a reformed tax system that would achieve both greater potential economic growth and enhanced tax fairness, and proposes a tax policy for a new era.
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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.