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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505150
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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882556
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501713
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Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2011
What does predict the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We answer this question correlating cross country time series of subjective well-being with the time series of social capital and/or GDP. First, we adopt a bivariate methodology similar to the one used used by Stevenson and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367510
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Happy for how long? How social capital and economic growth relate to happiness over time
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco - In: Ecological Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 242-256
What predicts the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We correlate the trends of subjective well-being with the trends of social capital and/or GDP. We find that in the long and the medium run social capital largely predicts the trends of subjective well-being. In the short-term this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116486
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Sociability Predicts Happiness: World-Wide Evidence from Time Series
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Sarracino, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2009
We provide macro evidence that in the long run the trends of social capital are a strong predictor of the trends of subjective well-being. Our measure of social capital is the individual membership in groups or associations. We apply the bivariate methodology used in Easterlin and Angelescu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555376
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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2015
economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527256
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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2015
economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496219
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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2015
economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235044