The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being since 1950

By A. Offer. 2006

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The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus 1 (2012, background): “…and theorists have challenged normative, neo-liberal assumptions concerning markets and their relationship to society (Marshall 1907, Keynes 1936, Polanyi 1944, Granovetter 1985, Bourdieu 1986, Sen 1987, Fligstein 1996, Offer 1997, 2006, Biggart and Delbridge 2004, Hammack and Heydemann 2009).”
Feminist Theories of Technology (2010, background): “Avner Offer (2006) explains why some kinds of household appliances have diffused more rapidly than others by comparing ‘time-saving goods’ (for example, cookers and washing machines) with ‘time-using goods’ (such as radio and television).”
International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “A historian's perspective is provided by Offer (2006). paper of this kind would be a survey article— listing which researchers said what, and the year they said it.”
Happiness Economics from 35,000 Feet (2012, unknown): “Behaviour may deviate from these predictions for reasons such as loss aversion, anchoring effects, and myopia (e.g. Hsee & Hastie, 2006; Kahneman & Thaler, 2006; Offer, 2006; Camerer et al., 2005).”
Tourism and social policy: the value of social tourism (2009, background): “Issues of behavior and character are becoming increasingly popular in public policy debates (Nickson et al 2004; Offer 2006).”
The bare necessities: How much household carbon do we really need? (2010, background): “Status plays out through psychological needs for belonging, self esteem and to feel needed by others (Layard 2005; Maslow 1968; Offer 2006).”
Measuring Welfare: Latent Variable Models for Happiness and Capabilities in the Presence of Unobservable Heterogeneity (2011, background): “…(2000); Desai and Shah (1988); Duclos et al. (2006); Fleurbaey (2007); Gaertner and Xu (1999); Heckman (2007); Klasen (2000); Klemish-Ahlert (1993); Nehring and Puppe (2009); Offer (2006); Pattanaik and Xu (1990); Ramos and Silber (2005); Schokkaert and van Ootegem (1990); Tonon (2008).”
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis (2008, unknown): “We consider the six following major life events, although others are obviously important also: Unemployment Layoff Quit Marriage Divorce Birth of first child For men, we observe 915 layoffs, 1456 quits, 1215 incidents of unemployment, 1218 marriages and 211 divorces.”