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Lifestyle tradeoffs and the decline of well-being (1.0.0)

This code implements a semi-quantitative mathematical model of the changes over time in the statistical distribution of well-being of individuals in a society. The model predicts that when individuals overvalue the more socially conspicuous aspects of well-being in their lifestyle choices, then the average well-being of the overall population may experience continuous decline. In addition to tradeoff cost and overvaluation, we identify statistical variation in individuals’ well-being and turnover within the population as key factors driving negative trends. We investigate the influence of the effects of heterogeneity in the population, as well as economic and/or technological progress.

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Thron, C (2015) Lifestyle Tradeoffs and the Decline of Societal Well-being: An Agent-based Model. arXiv:1508.03524 [physics.soc-ph]

Lifestyle tradeoffs and the decline of well-being 1.0.0

Submitted by Christopher Thron Published Jan 01, 2016 Last modified Feb 23, 2018

This code implements a semi-quantitative mathematical model of the changes over time in the statistical distribution of well-being of individuals in a society. The model predicts that when individuals overvalue the more socially conspicuous aspects of well-being in their lifestyle choices, then the average well-being of the overall population may experience continuous decline. In addition to tradeoff cost and overvaluation, we identify statistical variation in individuals’ well-being and turnover within the population as key factors driving negative trends. We investigate the influence of the effects of heterogeneity in the population, as well as economic and/or technological progress.

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Chris Thron (2016, January 01). “Lifestyle tradeoffs and the decline of well-being” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/4850/releases/1.0.0/

Associated Publication(s)

Thron, C (2015) Lifestyle Tradeoffs and the Decline of Societal Well-being: An Agent-based Model. arXiv:1508.03524 [physics.soc-ph]

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Chris Thron
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Model Version
1.0.0
License
AFL-3.0
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Publish Date
Friday, January 01, 2016
Last Updated
Monday, February 19, 2018
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1.0.0 Christopher Thron Fri Jan 1 19:10:06 2016 Mon Feb 19 20:01:47 2018 Published

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