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A theory of human needs
Len Doyal,Ian Gough +1 more
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This article is published in Critical Social Policy.The article was published on 1984-06-01. It has received 284 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fundamental human needs.read more
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Social Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: Wendt as discussed by the authors describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
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Prosperity without growth : economics for a finite planet
TL;DR: The Age of Irresponsibility, the Dilemma of growth, the Myth of Decoupling, the Iron Cage of Consumerism, and the Green New Deal as mentioned in this paper.
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Live Better by Consuming Less?: Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?
TL;DR: The concept of sustainable consumption is a response to this. as mentioned in this paper argues that a kind of "double dividend" is inherent in sustainable consumption: the ability to live better by consuming less and reduce our impact on the environment in the process.
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The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy
TL;DR: The authors found that income inequality in China became increasingly skewed towards the upper income strata, so that related to the average income the financial position of most Chinese worsened, and financial dissatisfaction rose and became an increasingly important factor in depressing happiness.
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A Theory of Human Motivation
Abstract: 1. The integrated wholeness of the organism must be one of the foundation stones of motivation theory. 2. The hunger drive (or any other physiological drive) was rejected as a centering point or model for a definitive theory of motivation. Any drive that is somatically based and localizable was shown to be atypical rather than typical in human motivation. 3. Such a theory should stress and center itself upon ultimate or basic goals rather than partial or superficial ones, upon ends rather than means to these ends. Such a stress would imply a more central place for unconscious than for conscious motivations. 4. There are usually available various cultural paths to the same goal. Therefore conscious, specific, local-cultural desires are not as fundamental in motivation theory as the more basic, unconscious goals. 5. Any motivated behavior, either preparatory or consummatory, must be understood to be a channel through which many basic needs may be simultaneously expressed or satisfied. Typically an act has more than one motivation. 6. Practically all organismic states are to be understood as motivated and as motivating. 7. Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of prepotency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need. Man is a perpetually wanting animal. Also no need or drive can be treated as if it were isolated or discrete; every drive is related to the state of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of other drives. 8. Lists of drives will get us nowhere for various theoretical and practical reasons. Furthermore any classification of motivations
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The Long Revolution
TL;DR: The 20th century is a stage in a long revolution which began two centuries ago, transforming men and institutions and overturning conventional ideas - political, economic, and cultural.