Global Economic Accounting and Its Critics: Objective Approaches (1)

Faik, Jürgen

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“…Traditionally, that is since the development of national accounting systems after the great depression in the 1920s and up through the twentieth century, researchers, policymakers and others used economic measures like GDP and income to compare levels of welfare or quality of life (Faik, 2015). From around the middle of the twentieth century, a pronounced critique of the one-sided economic focus on welfare led to what has been called 'the social indicators' movement' (Land, 2015).…”

Section: Quality Of Life As Subjective Well-being Life Satisfaction A...mentioning

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Introducing rural quality of life

Johansen¹,

Fisker²,

Lolle³

et al. 2023

Rural Quality of Life

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In 2018 the Danish philanthropic foundation Realdania conducted a survey asking 7,090 people about their satisfaction with life. Confirming prior suspicions, the survey showed that rural dwellers in communities with fewer than 200 inhabitants more frequently reported a high quality of life (82 per cent) than both the national average (76.8 per cent) and even more so when compared to Copenhagen residents (74.7 per cent) (Realdania, 2018). In a bid to explain these results and explore their wider implications, the foundation convened a multidisciplinary group of researchers for a four-year research project. This book is one of the outcomes of that project. Instead of just reporting findings from our research in the Danish countryside, however, we have commissioned chapters from international colleagues in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. We have taken this step because the general tendency in the survey results just mentioned are far from unique. Similar patterns crop up in a range of related studies conducted in recent years, most notably in the 2020 World Happiness Report. In a chapter on rural-urban happiness differentials, the report concludes that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand generally tend to be happier than their urban counterparts (Burger et al., 2020). Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe (e.g. Sørensen, 2014).Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundrum to researchers and policymakers alike: the ruralurban happiness paradox. This was the puzzle that our Danish team of researchers set out to solve in 2018. Our results are now ready to enter into critical dialogue with those of international colleagues engaged in answering the same kind of questions. Why are rural dwellers apparently happier than urban dwellers? Have the proponents of urban triumphalism got it all wrong? What is rural quality of life and is it the same in all places and for all groups? Can happiness actually be measured, how can it be

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Section: Quality Of Life As Subjective Well-being Life Satisfaction A...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Introducing rural quality of life

Johansen¹,

Fisker²,

Lolle³

et al. 2023

Rural Quality of Life

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“…Underpaid labor is, in turn, encouraged to consume on credit. That explains why the support for the richest contributes to economic imbalances (Faik, 2015). The problem of insufficient demand could be solved only by creating artificial needs or encourage people to consume ever more competing for social status (e.g.…”

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Cultural Foundations for Neoliberal Capitalism: Consumer and Corporate Culture

Rejman¹,

Czubocha²

2019

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The authors' considerations are based on the hypothesis that contemporary capitalism is not the recreation of 19 th century free market capitalism but an ideological system supporting mainly the interests of multinational companies. The neoliberal agenda is based also on cultural foundations and peoples' economic choices are influenced by cultural factors. The overarching logic of neoliberal capitalism boils down to profit maximization and consumption. When this logic was internalized by people, they became unconscious followers of the rules imposed upon them by capital owners. According to neoliberal ideology, corporate culture should to be applied to every domain of personal and social life. Interpersonal relations and marriage have become commodified as well. As a result, the state of mental health of the population has worsened and people have failed to achieve lasting satisfaction. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate from sociological point of view in what way neoliberal values pervade numerous domains of both social and personal life bringing about negative consequences.

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Global Economic Accounting and Its Critics: Objective Approaches (1)

Cited by 2 publications

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Introducing rural quality of life

Introducing rural quality of life

Cultural Foundations for Neoliberal Capitalism: Consumer and Corporate Culture

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