بررسی و نقد کتاب Nudge; Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness (سقلمه؛ بهبود تصمیمات دربارۀ تندرستی، ثروت، و خوش‌بختی)

Maximizing Wealth and Happiness: Improving Investor Decisions Through Improved Affective Forecasting

Given the economic crisis of the past few years and the plummeting value of individuals " retirement funds, the issue of consumer investment and savings has become crucial to consumer welfare. People have been forced to remain in jobs longer to attain their savings goals and seeing quarterly statements that show no growth has become the norm. With the economy finally showing signs of turning, i...

Wealth, Poverty, and Happiness

بررسی و نقد کتاب وضعیت پست‌مدرن: گزارشی دربارۀ دانش

ژای فرانسوا لیوتار در دهۀ ۱۹۷۰ کتاب وضعیت پست‌مدرن: گزارشی دربارۀ دانش را، به‌سفارش شورای دانشگاه‌های حکومت ایالتی کبک، نگاشت. وی به‌دنبال اثبات این ادعا بود که شرایط و موقعیت جوامع دست‌خوش تغییر شده‌اند و دانش و اطلاعاتْ تحت‌سلطۀ تکنولوژی به‌طور عام و کامپیوترها به‌طور خاص قرار گرفته است. پایان عصر صنعتی و تولید‌های انبوه به‌‌هم‌راه این تغییر وضعیت دانش را لیوتار عصر پست‌مدرن ‌می‌نامد ...

WEALTH AND HAPPINESS REVISITED Growing wealth of nations does go with greater happiness

Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all?” Intuition says 'yes' but theories of relative utility caution that the answer may be ‘no’. The theory of relative utility holds that rises in income will produce at best short-lived gains in happiness. If people’s happiness depends on income relative to others (social comparisons), or on income relative to their own past income (ad...

نقد کتاب جامعه شناسی سلامت،ثروت و عدالت

Children’s Health, The Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health

Background: Individuals with severe Z α1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency have a considerably increased risk of developing chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD). It has been hypothesized that compensatory increases in levels of other protease inhibitors mitigate the effects of this AAT deficiency. We analysed plasma levels of AAT, α1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) and secretory leukocyte protease inhibit...