The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom

Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.010

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“…In China, India and the USA, the decline in average reported well-being is largely predicted by the decline in a range of measures of social capital. Thus, erosion of social capital (Putnam, 2000) may be an important component of the explanation of the US ( , Chinese (Bartolini and Sarracino, 2014d) and Indian (Bartolini and Sarracino, 2014c) versions of the Easterlin paradox. In all these countries, the other important explanation is the growing importance of social comparisons, exacerbated by a context of rapidly increasing income inequality.…”

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Building sustainability through greater happiness

Bartolini

2014

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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The current unsustainable growth of the world economy is largely a consequence of the crisis of social capital experienced by much of the world's population. Declining social capital leads economies towards excessive growth, because people seek, in economic affluence, compensation for emotional distress and loss of resources caused by scarce social and affective relationships. To slow down economic growth requires an increase in social capital that is a fundamental contributor to happiness. From a wide range of possible approaches to increasing present happiness, this article suggests policies that would shift the economy to a more sustainable path. It focuses on a more politically sustainable set of proposals for a green 'new deal' than some of those currently under discussion.JEL Codes: A13, D63, D90, E20, F01, I31, O10, O40

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Building sustainability through greater happiness

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2014

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“…Declining trends of indicators of social interaction have been documented for England and Wales over the period 1972–99 ([31]), Great Britain over 1980–2000 ([32]), China ([33]) and Australia over 1960–90 ([34]).…”

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Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

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Evidence is growing that forms of incivility–e.g. aggressive and disrespectful behaviors, harassment, hate speech and outrageous claims–are spreading in the population of social networking sites’ (SNS) users. Online social networks such as Facebook allow users to regularly interact with known and unknown others, who can behave either politely or rudely. This leads individuals not only to learn and adopt successful strategies for using the site, but also to condition their own behavior on that of others. Using a mean field approach, we define anevolutionary game framework to analyse the dynamics of civil and uncivil ways of interaction in online social networks and their consequences for collective welfare. Agents can choose to interact with others–politely or rudely–in SNS, or to opt out from online social networks to protect themselves from incivility. We find that, when the initial share of the population of polite users reaches a critical level, civility becomes generalized if its payoff increases more than that of incivility with the spreading of politeness in online interactions. Otherwise, the spreading of self-protective behaviors to cope with online incivility can lead the economyto non-socially optimal stationary states. JEL Codes: C61, C73, D85, O33, Z13. PsycINFO Codes: 2240, 2750.

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“…These disproportions negatively influence the most and the least developed countries (Al Mamun & Sohag, 2015). There are ongoing studies analyzing the possibility for increasing the rate of economic growth and its qualitative transformation by reducing the expansion of exhaustible resources, and shutting down ecologically unsafe industrial produced, developed, and manufactured innovative products and services (González-Pernía & Peña-Legazkue, 2015;Leonida, Patti, Marini, & Navarra, 2015;Odhiambo, 2015;Pogosov, 2015;Popkova, Yurev, Stepicheva, & Denisov, 2015b;Bartolini & Sarracino, 2015;Zeira & Zoabi, 2015;etc. ).…”

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Unification of Economic Systems in the Global Economy: Barriers and Preconditions

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The purpose of the article is to determine barriers and preconditions for reducing the differences in the level of development in the global economy's countries and to develop recommendations for solving the problem of the global economy's economic systems unification.In order to determine the gap between developed and developing countries, the authors use the comparative analysis method. In order to determine possibilities, problems, perspectives, and threats to overcoming the gap by developing countries, the authors use the SWOT-analysis method. For studying the global economy's economic development disproportions, this research uses specially developed proprietary analysis of gap depth in economic development.As a result of the analysis, the authors determined that the level of economic development of the most developed countries exceeds the level of developing countries by more than four times. This reflects a huge gap depth and a high level of differentiation for countries in the global economy.The authors conclude that barriers of unification of economic systems in the global economy are primarily related to socio-political factors. Preconditions to reducing the difference in level of economic development for countries in the global economy are predetermined by the influence of globalization and international integration of economic systems. ABSTRACT F63

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The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom

Cited by 98 publications

References 52 publications

Building sustainability through greater happiness

Building sustainability through greater happiness

Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

Unification of Economic Systems in the Global Economy: Barriers and Preconditions

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