Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

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

کتاب سقلمه با فراهم‌کردن مشاهدات تجربی دربارة سوگیری‌های رفتاری در تصمیم‌گیری و تأثیر محیط بر آن‌ها به معرفی رویکرد قیم‌مآبی آزادی‌خواهانه می‌پردازد. این رویکرد، که سقلمه نام گرفته است، به هر جنبه‌ای از معماری انتخاب مربوط می‌شود که باعث تغییر رفتار قابل‌پیش‌بینی افراد شود درحالی‌که ماهیت گزینه‌های پیش‌روی تصمیم‌گیرندگان را تغییر ندهد و آزادی انتخاب آن‌ها را حفظ کند. نویسندگان معتقدند ...

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

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...

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...