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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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Running Head: Social Capital, Comparative Reference Group, and Depression Does Who You Know in the Positional Hierarchy Protect or Hurt? Social Capital, Comparative Reference Group, and Depression in Two Societies *
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors examined two competing theories, social capital and comparative reference group, in the United States and urban China and compared their different application across the two societies using two cultural explanations, relational dependence and self-evaluation motive.
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Politically Driven Mapping Political and Media Discourses of Penal Populism—The Hungarian Case
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take Hungary as a typical case in the case of penal populism, advocating severe punishment of criminals, and show that it has greatly influenced justice policy measures in Eastern Europe over the last decade.
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Rising Inequality in an Era of Austerity: The Case of the US
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine trends in inequality and then review arguments that suggest that it is both good and bad for growth in America's cities, and provide evidence that there has been a reversal in the effects of inequality after 2000 with it now being associated with less income and job growth in US metropolitan areas.
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Integrating the Human Sciences to Evolve Effective Policies.
Anthony Biglan,Christine Cody +1 more
TL;DR: The evidence reviewed here shows that the canonical economic model of rational self-interest must be reconciled with an evolutionary perspective on human development and wellbeing if society is going to evolve public policies that advance the health and wellbeing of the entire population.
Making Growth Inclusive: Some lessons from countries and the literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extract lessons from case studies of Brazil, Viet Nam, and Ghana to suggest three key areas that may deliver growth that is inclusive: a proper redistributive agenda, appropriate macroeconomic prudence, and a pro-poor private sector.
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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.