Paternalism and well-being

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Prof. Avner Offer, University of Oxford
• Friday 16 January 2009, 13:00-14:00
• Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Jessica Barrett.

Avner Offer is Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford. His recent work, ‘The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950’, argues that “well-being” has in fact lagged behind the increasing affluence of western societies: that “affluence breeds impatience, and impatience undermines well-being…the paradox of affluence and its challenge is that the flow of new rewards can undermine the capacity to enjoy them.” The central concepts are therefore future discount, “bounded rationality,” and myopia.

This talk is part of the Bradford Hill Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2015
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2016
• Biology
• Cambridge Global Food Security
• Cambridge Infectious Disease
• Cambridge Infectious Diseases
• Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
• Department of Psychiatry talks stream
• Department of Public Health and Primary Care
• Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge
• Life Sciences
• Life Sciences
• ME Seminar
• Primary Care
• PublicHealth@Cambridge
• my_list
• ndk22's list
• other talks
• primary care

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.