This paper argues that the discipline of health economics has lost its way due to its persistent focus on individualistic and consequential values. The paper suggests how this might be remedied in both theory and practice. It proposes a new paradigm for health economics, which focuses on communitarian values. This new paradigm is discussed in the context of the Scandinavian welfare model.

This research compared social networking site (SNS) use in a collectivistic culture, China, and an individualistic culture, the United States (US). Over 400 college student participants from a Southwestern University in Chongqing, China, and 490 college participants from a Midwestern University in the US completed a survey about their use of SNSs – time spent, importance and motives for use. Th...

One of the important features of this study is to examine the moderating effect of national culture on the bonding-commitment link. Results reveal that individualism moderates the bondingcommitment relationship. In more collectivist societies, social bonding has a stronger effect on commitment whereas in cultures characterized as individualistic, structural bonding has a stronger effect on comm...

This paper presents a unifying account for why many biological, ecological and other science processes that are taught in school curricula those occurring our everyday environment (such as the spread of Covid19) particularly difficult students to understand. These often-misconceived Emergent processes. The hypothesis is bring perspective Individualistic (a form linear) thinking suitable underst...

1 Deference and Self-Knowledge It has become increasingly popular to suggest that non-individualistic theories of content1 undermine our purported a priori knowledge of such contents because they entail that we lack the ability to distinguish our thoughts from alternative thoughts with different contents. However, problems relating to such knowledge of ‘comparative’ content tell just as much ag...