James Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 1234350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4461-5133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1871 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The search for meaningful work under neo-bureaucracy
Drawing from a qualitative, empirical study of the working lives of freelance television workers, we explore the experience of ‘meaningful’ work where aesthetic considerations are attractants to the industry. Such aesthetic considerations – and the glamorous nature of the work – attracted both older and younger freelancers. However, whereas the older cohort had entered the industry in a previous era governed by bureaucratic forms, the younger coh…
Beyond the psychedelic hype
Background and AimsAdvocates of psychedelic medicine have positioned psychedelics as a novel therapeutic intervention that will solve the mental health crisis by liberating individuals from their entrenched habits and limiting beliefs. Despite claims for novelty, the psychedelics industry is engaging in the same profit-oriented approaches that contributed to poor clinical outcomes with SSRIs and other earlier pharmaceuticals, which threatens to u…
Revisiting comparisons of income inequality when Lorenz curves intersect
Economic Inequality and Covid-19 Deaths and Cases in the First Wave
The cross-country relationship of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case and death rates with previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic's first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a worldwide sample of countries. If the estimated associations are interpreted as causal, the Gini coefficient for income has a significant positive effect on both cases and deaths per capita in regressions using the f…
Sedated
Emotions in the Field
Introduction Emotions in the Field
Reforming Canada’s Disaster Assistance Programs
Canada’s disaster financial assistance (DFA) system provides benefits through the provinces, subsidized by the federal DFA Arrangements (DFAA) above damage thresholds that were tripled in 2015. Disaster incidence and severity is increasing. Flooding is most costly, then storms and wildfire. The need for policy changes is analyzed, with particular attention to flooding. It is argued that flood coverage should be required under home insurance, subs…
Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less— around one half—of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years an…
How Voting and Consensus Created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)
This paper examines how Task Force votes were central to the development of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III and DSM-III-R). Data were obtained through a literature review, investigation of DSM archival material housed at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and interviews with key Task Force members of DSM-III and DSM-III-R. Such data indicate that Task Force votes played a central role in the making of DSM-I…
Do we see numbers
Economic Efficiency of Federal Provision of Scientific Information and Support for Science Research in Canada
Federal provision of scientific information and support for science research have declined significantly in recent years, and a trend away from pure research toward applied and commercializable research has begun. This commentary asks whether those and other trends in this area can be justified in terms of economic efficiency. It is argued that the marginal benefits of scientific information and research have likely risen relative to production c…
The possibilities for global inequality and poverty reduction using revenues from global carbon pricing
The importance of suffering
Closing the 49th Parallel
We draw attention to, and begin to consider the implications of, the severe restrictions on emigration by Canadians to the United States introduced under the US Immigration Act of 1965. These restrictions came into effect in 1968 and lasted until mobility began to increase to some extent under the free trade agreements in the early 1990s. This is an unusual episode in Canadian history, the implications of which for the Canadian economy and for Ca…
Grounding Concepts
Grounding Concepts and The Origin of Concepts are two new and important books. The first is by Carrie Jenkins, a philosopher of mathematics very much in the analytic tradition; the second is by Susan Carey, a psychologist who is well connected to philosophy. Both are deeply concerned with how we acquire our arithmetical concepts, and both are empiricist‐minded (perhaps naturalist‐minded is a better description of Carey). Yet their approaches are …
The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth
Journal Article The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth Get access James B. Davies, James B. Davies University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susanna Sandström, Susanna Sandström UNU‐WIDER, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anthony Shorrocks, Anthony Shorrocks UNU‐WIDER, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Positive and Negative Models of Suffering
I explore how many within modern industrial societies currently understand, manage, and respond to their emotional suffering. I argue that this understanding and management of suffering has radically altered in the last 30 years, creating a new model of suffering, "the negative model" (suffering is purposeless), which has largely replaced the "positive model" (suffering is purposeful) that prevailed in the 18th and 19th centuries. This shift has …
Bizet in Khayelitsha
This article takes as its focus Mark Dornford-May's film opera U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Dornford-May 2005), set in the South African township of Khayelitsha and based on Bizet's opra comique Carmen . The authors of the article approach the film opera in a self-consciously audio-visual and interdisciplinary way, paying attention at once to its operatic, filmic and socio-political worlds. They prefer not to rehearse arguments in favour of the politic…
Julia's Gift
This article addresses a subject long overlooked by students and scholarship - the musical annual. Emerging in London in 1829, this was an enormously popular brand of commercial publication conventionally produced for holiday sales. One particular copy - given as a present to an 11-year-old girl that year - proves a useful starting point from which to interrogate these items as a whole. Several avenues of inquiry suggest themselves: ideas of gift…
The effects of gender control on fertility and children's consumption
Distributional Effects of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption
James B. Davies, Distributional Effects of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption: Single vs. Multi-Year Analysis, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, Supplement: The Canadian Experience of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (Oct., 1995), pp. S159-S173
Income Inequality and International Migration
Journal Article Income Inequality and International Migration Get access James B. Davies, James B. Davies University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Wooton Ian Wooton University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 789–802, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234577 Published: …
The Distributive Effects of Wealth Taxes
James B. Davies, The Distributive Effects of Wealth Taxes, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 17, No. 3, The Role of Wealth Taxes in Canada / L'Impôt sur la richesse (Sep., 1991), pp. 279-308
Reforming Capital Income Taxation in Canada
Emotions in the Field
The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth
Journal Article The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth Get access James B. Davies, James B. Davies University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susanna Sandström, Susanna Sandström UNU‐WIDER, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anthony Shorrocks, Anthony Shorrocks UNU‐WIDER, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Uncertain Lifetime, Consumption, and Dissaving in Retirement
This paper asks whether the continued accumulation, or mild dissaving, observed among the retired can be explained by uncertain lifetime. In the absence of annuities, after an initial period influenced by borrowing constraints, under constant relative risk aversion, uncertain lifetime depresses consumption by a proportion increasing with age if the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption is "small." Illustrative computations, base…
Economic Inequality and Covid-19 Deaths and Cases in the First Wave
The cross-country relationship of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case and death rates with previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic's first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a worldwide sample of countries. If the estimated associations are interpreted as causal, the Gini coefficient for income has a significant positive effect on both cases and deaths per capita in regressions using the f…
Positive and Negative Models of Suffering
I explore how many within modern industrial societies currently understand, manage, and respond to their emotional suffering. I argue that this understanding and management of suffering has radically altered in the last 30 years, creating a new model of suffering, "the negative model" (suffering is purposeless), which has largely replaced the "positive model" (suffering is purposeful) that prevailed in the 18th and 19th centuries. This shift has …
Income Inequality and International Migration
Journal Article Income Inequality and International Migration Get access James B. Davies, James B. Davies University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Wooton Ian Wooton University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 789–802, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234577 Published: …
The effects of gender control on fertility and children's consumption
Beyond the psychedelic hype
Background and AimsAdvocates of psychedelic medicine have positioned psychedelics as a novel therapeutic intervention that will solve the mental health crisis by liberating individuals from their entrenched habits and limiting beliefs. Despite claims for novelty, the psychedelics industry is engaging in the same profit-oriented approaches that contributed to poor clinical outcomes with SSRIs and other earlier pharmaceuticals, which threatens to u…
How Voting and Consensus Created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)
This paper examines how Task Force votes were central to the development of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III and DSM-III-R). Data were obtained through a literature review, investigation of DSM archival material housed at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and interviews with key Task Force members of DSM-III and DSM-III-R. Such data indicate that Task Force votes played a central role in the making of DSM-I…
The Distributive Effects of Wealth Taxes
James B. Davies, The Distributive Effects of Wealth Taxes, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 17, No. 3, The Role of Wealth Taxes in Canada / L'Impôt sur la richesse (Sep., 1991), pp. 279-308
Economic Efficiency of Federal Provision of Scientific Information and Support for Science Research in Canada
Federal provision of scientific information and support for science research have declined significantly in recent years, and a trend away from pure research toward applied and commercializable research has begun. This commentary asks whether those and other trends in this area can be justified in terms of economic efficiency. It is argued that the marginal benefits of scientific information and research have likely risen relative to production c…
The possibilities for global inequality and poverty reduction using revenues from global carbon pricing
Closing the 49th Parallel
We draw attention to, and begin to consider the implications of, the severe restrictions on emigration by Canadians to the United States introduced under the US Immigration Act of 1965. These restrictions came into effect in 1968 and lasted until mobility began to increase to some extent under the free trade agreements in the early 1990s. This is an unusual episode in Canadian history, the implications of which for the Canadian economy and for Ca…
Julia's Gift
This article addresses a subject long overlooked by students and scholarship - the musical annual. Emerging in London in 1829, this was an enormously popular brand of commercial publication conventionally produced for holiday sales. One particular copy - given as a present to an 11-year-old girl that year - proves a useful starting point from which to interrogate these items as a whole. Several avenues of inquiry suggest themselves: ideas of gift…
Distributional Effects of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption
James B. Davies, Distributional Effects of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption: Single vs. Multi-Year Analysis, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, Supplement: The Canadian Experience of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (Oct., 1995), pp. S159-S173
On Ancient Statutes Relating to the Marches of Wales and the Border Counties, Considered in Connexion with the Political Geoghraphy of Wales
(1871). On Ancient Statutes Relating to the Marches of Wales and the Border Counties, Considered in Connexion with the Political Geoghraphy of Wales. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 404-415
Criticism and Creation - a Study of Albert Thibaudet
Sincerity and Self-delusion in Les Faux-Monnayeurs
Uncertain Lifetime, Consumption, and Dissaving in Retirement
This paper asks whether the continued accumulation, or mild dissaving, observed among the retired can be explained by uncertain lifetime. In the absence of annuities, after an initial period influenced by borrowing constraints, under constant relative risk aversion, uncertain lifetime depresses consumption by a proportion increasing with age if the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption is "small." Illustrative computations, base…
Reforming Capital Income Taxation in Canada
The Distributive Effects of Wealth Taxes
James B. Davies, The Distributive Effects of Wealth Taxes, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 17, No. 3, The Role of Wealth Taxes in Canada / L'Impôt sur la richesse (Sep., 1991), pp. 279-308
Income Inequality and International Migration
Journal Article Income Inequality and International Migration Get access James B. Davies, James B. Davies University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ian Wooton Ian Wooton University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 413, 1 July 1992, Pages 789–802, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234577 Published: …
Distributional Effects of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption
James B. Davies, Distributional Effects of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption: Single vs. Multi-Year Analysis, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 21, Supplement: The Canadian Experience of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (Oct., 1995), pp. S159-S173
The effects of gender control on fertility and children's consumption
Julia's Gift
This article addresses a subject long overlooked by students and scholarship - the musical annual. Emerging in London in 1829, this was an enormously popular brand of commercial publication conventionally produced for holiday sales. One particular copy - given as a present to an 11-year-old girl that year - proves a useful starting point from which to interrogate these items as a whole. Several avenues of inquiry suggest themselves: ideas of gift…
Bizet in Khayelitsha
This article takes as its focus Mark Dornford-May's film opera U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Dornford-May 2005), set in the South African township of Khayelitsha and based on Bizet's opra comique Carmen . The authors of the article approach the film opera in a self-consciously audio-visual and interdisciplinary way, paying attention at once to its operatic, filmic and socio-political worlds. They prefer not to rehearse arguments in favour of the politic…
Closing the 49th Parallel
We draw attention to, and begin to consider the implications of, the severe restrictions on emigration by Canadians to the United States introduced under the US Immigration Act of 1965. These restrictions came into effect in 1968 and lasted until mobility began to increase to some extent under the free trade agreements in the early 1990s. This is an unusual episode in Canadian history, the implications of which for the Canadian economy and for Ca…
Grounding Concepts
Grounding Concepts and The Origin of Concepts are two new and important books. The first is by Carrie Jenkins, a philosopher of mathematics very much in the analytic tradition; the second is by Susan Carey, a psychologist who is well connected to philosophy. Both are deeply concerned with how we acquire our arithmetical concepts, and both are empiricist‐minded (perhaps naturalist‐minded is a better description of Carey). Yet their approaches are …
The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth
Journal Article The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth Get access James B. Davies, James B. Davies University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susanna Sandström, Susanna Sandström UNU‐WIDER, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anthony Shorrocks, Anthony Shorrocks UNU‐WIDER, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Positive and Negative Models of Suffering
I explore how many within modern industrial societies currently understand, manage, and respond to their emotional suffering. I argue that this understanding and management of suffering has radically altered in the last 30 years, creating a new model of suffering, "the negative model" (suffering is purposeless), which has largely replaced the "positive model" (suffering is purposeful) that prevailed in the 18th and 19th centuries. This shift has …
The importance of suffering
The possibilities for global inequality and poverty reduction using revenues from global carbon pricing
Do we see numbers
Economic Efficiency of Federal Provision of Scientific Information and Support for Science Research in Canada
Federal provision of scientific information and support for science research have declined significantly in recent years, and a trend away from pure research toward applied and commercializable research has begun. This commentary asks whether those and other trends in this area can be justified in terms of economic efficiency. It is argued that the marginal benefits of scientific information and research have likely risen relative to production c…
How Voting and Consensus Created the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)
This paper examines how Task Force votes were central to the development of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III and DSM-III-R). Data were obtained through a literature review, investigation of DSM archival material housed at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and interviews with key Task Force members of DSM-III and DSM-III-R. Such data indicate that Task Force votes played a central role in the making of DSM-I…
Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less— around one half—of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years an…
Emotions in the Field
Introduction Emotions in the Field
Reforming Canada’s Disaster Assistance Programs
Canada’s disaster financial assistance (DFA) system provides benefits through the provinces, subsidized by the federal DFA Arrangements (DFAA) above damage thresholds that were tripled in 2015. Disaster incidence and severity is increasing. Flooding is most costly, then storms and wildfire. The need for policy changes is analyzed, with particular attention to flooding. It is argued that flood coverage should be required under home insurance, subs…
Economic Inequality and Covid-19 Deaths and Cases in the First Wave
The cross-country relationship of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case and death rates with previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic's first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a worldwide sample of countries. If the estimated associations are interpreted as causal, the Gini coefficient for income has a significant positive effect on both cases and deaths per capita in regressions using the f…
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