Die US-Variante des Kapitalismus erzeugt gesundheitsgefährenden chronischen Stress

John Komlos

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2024, vol. 104, issue 6, 413-419

Abstract: Maximising output creates psychological stress as a negative externality. Focusing on bellweather indicators of economic performance while disregarding its effect on work-life balance, on income distribution, on insecurity, or the quality of life creates stress-ors that harm the human biological system. Stress in the US has been generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, the highest level of inequality among rich countries, meager social safety nets that might have mitigated the turbulence of adjusting to the new knowledge economy, and the downward social mobility of millions disadvantaged by globalisation.

JEL-codes: A14 D60 E71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/wd-2024-0108 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:wirtsc:v:104:y:2024:i:6:p:413-419:n:1014

DOI: 10.2478/wd-2024-0108

Access Statistics for this article

Wirtschaftsdienst is currently edited by Nicole Waidlein

More articles in Wirtschaftsdienst from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().