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Government and myopiaAvner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford looked at how myopia affects decision making in both the private and public sectors, and set out the potential implications for policy.
Avner Offer has been Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College since 2000, after having been a fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1992-2000) and previously at the University of York, and the Australian National University. He took his first degree at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has published extensively in the past on land tenure, international political economy and the economics of war. During the last decade he has focused on consumption and the quality of life in the United States and Britain. He has recently published The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006). He is currently extending this perspective to study ‘From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism’, which investigates the shift from social solidarity to individualistic competition as the dominant policy norms during the last four decades.