scholarly journals The Moral Economy of Thrift: The Production of the Indebted Self in the Reality Series Getting out of Debt and Life or Debt

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 485-500
Author(s):  
Silke Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Tv Show

In this article, the intersection of the economic and social dimensions of thrift is analysed under the special condition of debt. The debt context serves as a focal glass exposing agents, their social practices and strategies of accumulation capitals with regard to appropriate spending. In order to capture the many layers of thrift, the concept of moral economies is applied. This concept tries to reconcile two seemingly divergent dimensions of human behaviour which can be described as individualistic, calculating and serving a self-interest (economy) on the one hand and community-oriented and benefitting a common good (morality) on the other hand. Starting out with an overview over studies on moral economies in historical and social science since the early 1970s, I will explain the heuristic use of the concept for the case of debts research and apply it to representations of thrift as visualised and popularised in the reality TV shows Raus aus den Schulden (Getting Out of Debt) and Life or Debt. Here, the images of homes are clues for the cultural productions of appropriateness on TV: What are suitable ways of living when in debt? What are adequate scenes of dwelling and narratives of dealing with debts and which normative structures regulate those stories, the perception of the self and potential social exclusion? By examining the TV show as a strong voice in the debt discourse, thrift turns out to be a cornerstone in the internal and external regimes of governing debt in the micropolitics of TV.

Kick Andy, The Oprah Winfrey TV Show of Indonesia

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Amalia E. Maulana ◽  
Lexi Z. Hikmah
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Oprah Winfrey ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tv Show

Subject area Social Marketing, Entertainment Education Program. Study level/applicability Postgraduate program. Master in Strategic Marketing and Master in Business Administration. Case overview In the midst of the many TV shows that do not provide enlightenment, Kick Andy TV Show appeared to provide answers to the public unrest. In the spirit of “Watch with Heart” Kick Andy serves Entertainment-Education and Social rarely glimpsed by the television station. Success of Kick Andy TV Show made this brand doing brand extension such as Kick Andy Foundation, Kick Andy Magazine, Kick Andy Enterprise and others. Challenge for this program is to maintain the right balance between social, entertainment and education. Expected learning outcomes This Case Study illustrates that Kick Andy TV Show filled the value gap that viewers experienced from existing TV show. This show is similar to the offer of Oprah Winfrey Show in the USA. Student is expected to understand social marketing primarily related to entertainment-education TV show. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes.

The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good.

1998 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Randall Balmer ◽  
Martin E. Marty
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good.

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1077
Author(s):  
John Isbister ◽  
Martin E. Marty
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

scholarly journals XVII. A sketch of an analysis and notation applicable to the estimation of the value of life contingencies

1820 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 214-294 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
General Observation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mathematical Skill ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
State Of The Science

The estimation of the value of property, connected with life contingencies, has for many years occupied the attention of the philosophers, as well as the monied and landed interest of this country. The many institutions now existing in Eng­land, for the purpose of granting annuities and assurances on lives, are a sufficient evidence that they are conceived to yield advantages to the community:—advantages which seem to present themselves in two points of view; the one, the gain accruing to the parties granting the assurance or other ob­ject; the other, the benefit to be received by persons pur­chasing those grants. In a political point of view, it appears a question of great importance to decide, what ought to be the demands of those companies, so that the public may reap the greatest benefit from them? And the only means of answering this question, is the possession of the mathemati­cal and philosophical principles, by which those institutions ought to be guided. In the present improved state of the science of life assurances, it is not sufficient for a proper re­gulation to follow old customs, and calculations, drawn from a less perfect experience than we have now the means of obtaining ; but every company, to reap the advantage of the progressive state of the science, should not only possess every knowledge relative to this science, which it may be within its immediate power to acquire, but it should promul­gate its individual information; that the actuaries of the different societies may, by their mathematical skill, collect for the common good of all, from multiplied resources, that which they cannot obtain from a less general observation. I am induced to venture this hint, as it is my firm belief, that the tables generally adopted, might, by this means, receive many extremely necessary corrections; for those tables should be as accurate as they can possibly be made, and the interest should be calculated at that rate which shall appear to be the average interest to be made for money; but such additional demands should be made by the company or insti­tution, as to leave an adequate portion for its security, profit, and expenses; for it does not seem possible, in the various beneficial applications which can be made from a proper knowledge of this branch of the mathematics, to judge uni­versally how to adopt tables of mortality, which are not correct in themselves, connected with a rate of interest which is not the average rate made in reality, so that the advantage may tend to any one direction.

Asabiyya – Solidarity in the age of barbarism: An Afro-Arab-Asian alternative

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-278
Author(s):  
Magid Shihade
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Alternative Response ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Us ◽  
The One

At a time when the global empire seems to show its naked aggression especially in North Africa and West Asia, as we have seen in Libya, and now in Syria, an aggression that has further dismembered these societies, manifested also in global debt, racism against immigrants, and attacks on workers’ rights, we have also been witnessing a type of ‘nativist’ violence wearing the garb of religion as reflected in the different militant groups in the region who claim to offer an alternative to corrupt and violent regimes, on the one hand, and to a violent racist global empire led by the United States, on the other. The claims of these nativist groups are that political Islam or the return to the true Islam is the only solution available, and that they want to duplicate an ideal Islamic State from the distant past. While doing so, they have further helped the global empire in further destroying local societies, and many of them have collaborated with the US and other western countries, and their proxies in the region. Worsening this situation is the neoliberal life/subject-hood that has become the spirit and norm in many societies and states in the Global South, whereby individualism and self-interest have displaced the collective/common good. In this article, and through a reading of the concept of Asabiyya as articulated by Ibn Khaldun, the author suggests an alternative response to the violent global empire, to violent religious militancy, and to neoliberalism, by discussing how the concept of Asabiyya can help in building internal solidarity within societies in the region, and possibly beyond.

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