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Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | PLoS Medicine
severity of drug laws around the world have virtually no relation to the drug use of the population
The Encultured Brain: Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now?
the brain now acts as a central metaphor, a substitute for self, a way to explain mental health, a short-hand for why people are different. Neuroanthropology focuses on how social and cultural phenomena actually achieve the impact they have on people in m
Beyond Dichotomy: The Curvilinear Relationship Between Social Responsibility and Financial Performance (pdf)
Barnett, M. & R. Salomon. 2006. Beyond Dichotomy: The Curvilinear Relationship Between Social Responsibility and Financial Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 27: 1101-1122. (http://www.robertsalomon.com/research.html)
George A. Akerlof & Paul M. Romer - Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (pdf)
an economic underground can come to life if firms have an incentive to go broke for profit at society's expense (to loot) instead of to go for broke (to gamble on success). Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalt
The Coevolution of Preferences and Institutions: History and Theory (Bowles)
The joint dynamics of population-level social institutions and individual preferences (or more broadly cultures) are illustrated in four case studies: the end of Communist Party rule in the German Democratic Republic, the transformation of traditional con
Population and Sustainability: Can We Avoid Limiting the Number of People?: Scientific American
A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of the Prohibition and Regulation of Drugs
report: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/TransformCBApaper.pdf
Axtell, Epstein, and Peyton Young: The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model (PDF)
to show how norms can emerge spontaneously
at the social level from the decentralized interactions of many
individuals that cumulate over time into a set of social expectations.
Edward L. Glaeser, José A. Scheinkman: Measuring social interactions (PDF)
Our
particular interest is in interactions where one person’s taking a particular action
increases the likelihood of another person also taking the same action. We will
generally mean the term positive social interactions to refer to just this type of sit
The Right Wing's Latest Argument Against Public Health Care -- We'd Like It Too Much | AlterNet
Welfare Reform Has Led to More Work but Less Education | National Bureau of Economic Research
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14466
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