Books: Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence (fully revised and updated for 2018)

Economic credentialing: your money or your life!

The economic overhaul of health care in America is restructuring the business of medicine, and with it the relationship between physician and patient. Previously accustomed to thinking primarily about the best interests of each patient, the physician now finds this traditional loyalty in conflict with competing concerns, including those of government, business, and insurers who watch with alarm...

Your Money or Your Life: Managing Health, Managing Money

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this paper examines the relationship between non-collateralized debt (NCD) and health behaviors. The results reveal that households whose members tend to lead less healthy lifestyles are more likely to hold NCD. Obesity of either spouse is associated with about 7 percentage point increase in the probability of holding NCD. Similarly, wife’s smoking is a...

Alternative medicine a cruel hoax--your money and your life?

This article considers the atrrsctions srrd dangers of idtenrstive medicim., particularly in the author’s nstive New Zeatarrd. The history of homeopathy is briefly reviewed. Faiture to skate resources to science educstion, basic research, and the interpersonal sspects of pstient care trss led to an uninformed, uncritical acceptance of alternative therapies within certain groups. Among fire reco...

Your Money or Your Life: A Prescriptive Model for Health, Safety, and Consumption Decisions

I this paper we develop a conceptual framework and model for valuing risks to an individual’s health and life and to support decision making about investments in health, quality of life, and safety. Our treatment of health risks in the model builds on the popular quality-adjusted-life-year (QALY) framework that balances health quality and length of life issues. We extend this framework to consi...

Put your money where your mouth is.