Stressful integration

Arbeitspapier

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 total 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 56

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; International Institutional Arrangements ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
• Subject: Merger of populations ; Revision of social space ; Aggregate relative deprivation ; Societal distress

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stark, Oded
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
• (where): Tübingen
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/77913
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-68808
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET