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He has worked at the university of york, the australian national university, and the university of oxford, with research fellowships at the university of southampton, the university of cambridge, rutgers university and new york university. Nonrefereed journals the challenge of affluenceinterview with avner offer, challenge, 50, 1 2007, 1. Obesity, unhappiness, and the challenge of affluence. Social democracy and market liberalism offered different solutions to the. People whose longterm objective is a steady body weight nevertheless find it difficult to resist the temptations of weightincreasing. Emeritus fellow, all souls college from 2011 chichele professor of economic history from 2000 to 2011 reader in recent social and economic history, and professorial fellow, nuffield college, oxford from 1992 to 2000.
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