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Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts?
“The Swedish business professor Carl Cederström argues persuasively in his book The Happiness Fantasy that corporations and advertisers have promised satisfaction, but have led people instead into a rat race of joyless production and consumption.” This article is subtitled “As society gets richer,…
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Higher minimum wages are linked to lower suicide rates
“A study estimates that $1 more would save thousands of lives” The Economist magazine, citing a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health , say that: “OF ALL THE tactics governments employ to raise living standards, few stir as much controversy as the minimum wage. Advocates claim that minimum…
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
The publishers describe this book as a “… powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness.” They continue: “The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But…
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1 in 6 Americans takes a psychiatric drug
One in six U.S. adults reported taking a psychiatric drug, such as an antidepressant or a sedative, in 2013, a new study has found. The new data comes from an analysis of the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), which…
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