Creative Destruction, Economic Insecurity, Stress, and Epidemic Obesity.
The percentage of Americans who are obese has doubled since 1980. Most attempts to explain this “obesity epidemic” have been found inadequate, including the “Big Two” (the increased availability of inexpensive food and the decline of physical exertion). This article explores the possibility that the...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 936 - 983 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 2010
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