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Main description: What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential. Young...
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We hypothesize that greater economic policy uncertainty (EPU) leads to increases in unhealthy behaviors by lowering individuals' impulse control. Based on 6.1 million interviews over 22 years, our analysis reveals a positive relation between EPU and the propensity to make poor lifestyle choices...
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Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Over the last decade, the apparently … expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoris of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies - that Ireland has cast off … liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural …
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This paper outlines the social and economic consequences of the anti-crisis measures adopted in Ireland since 2008. The …
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