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Kirkus Reviews gave the book a positive review, calling it "Occasionally wonky but overall a good case for how the dismal science can make the world less—well, dismal." [ 11 ] In his review for The Guardian , Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis praised the book and called it a "methodical deconstruction of fake facts" and an ...
Animal Spirits...is aimed squarely at the general reader, and rightly so: Macroeconomics is now everybody's business—the banks are playing with our money." [1] An exception to the numerous glowing reviews the book received was a lengthy critique published in The New Republic by the Judge Richard Posner. [2]
One context that this may occur in is societal trauma (e.g. the black death, World War II) which may cause great distress, but also eustress in the form of hardiness, coping, and fostering a sense of community. [21] The Yerkes–Dodson model demonstrates the optimum balance of stress with a bell curve (shown in the image in the top right). [22]
According to a survey from Resume Now, the top three financial issues Americans are stressed about are credit card debt (34%), building emergency savings (21%) and saving for retirement (30%)....
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Hans Selye defined stress as “the nonspecific (that is, common) result of any demand upon the body, be the effect mental or somatic.” [5] This includes the medical definition of stress as a physical demand and the colloquial definition of stress as a psychological demand. A stressor is inherently neutral meaning that the same stressor can ...
October 10, 2024, marks the 23rd annual World Mental Health Day, initiated in 1992 to increase awareness of mental health education and combat social stigmas related to mental illness. It's the ...
While most of the book focuses on the biological machinery of the body, the last chapter of the book focuses on self-help. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers argues that social phenomena such as child abuse and the chronic stress of poverty affect biological stress, leading to increased risk of disease and disability.