Stressful Integration

Oded Stark

European Economic Review, 2013, vol. 63, issue C, 1-9

Abstract: This paper considers the integration of economies as a merger of populations. The premise is that the merger of groups of people alters their social landscape and their comparators. The paper identifies the effect of the merger on aggregate distress. A merger is shown to increase aggregate distress, measured as aggregate relative deprivation: the social distress of a merged population is greater than the sum of the social distress of the constituent populations when apart. Physiological evidence from neighboring disciplines points to an increase in societal stress upon merger.

Keywords: Merger of populations; Revision of social space; Aggregate relative deprivation; Societal distress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D04 D63 F55 H53 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.04.008

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