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SUMMARY:Paternalism and well-being - Prof. Avner Offer\, University of Oxf
 ord
DTSTART:20090116T130000Z
DTEND:20090116T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jessica Barrett
DESCRIPTION:Avner Offer is Professor of Economic History at the University
  of Oxford.\nHis recent work\, 'The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control a
 nd Well-Being in\nthe United States and Britain since 1950'\, argues that 
 "well-being" has in\nfact lagged behind the increasing affluence of wester
 n societies: that\n"affluence breeds impatience\, and impatience undermine
 s well-being...the\nparadox of affluence and its challenge is that the flo
 w of new rewards can\nundermine the capacity to enjoy them." The central c
 oncepts are therefore\nfuture discount\, "bounded rationality\," and myopi
 a.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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