The Political economy of hunger: v.1: Entitlement and well-being; v.2: Famine prevention

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 29-2220-29-2220
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political

Educational policy shifts: A critical review of the emerging trend of mindfulness in education

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110372
Author(s):  
Celeste Duff
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
School Based ◽  
Mindfulness In Education ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Policy Shifts

Globally, mindfulness is an emerging and innovative trend in education. Specifically, in school-based education, there has been growing excitement surrounding the implementation of mindfulness. Although policy, political and economic shifts and powers may seem quite far removed from the realities of children and mindfulness, the political economy does indeed saturate and shape children’s lives in multiple ways. The purpose of this review is to chart some of the economic and political contexts and highlight some of the shifts that may speak to the emerging trend of mindfulness in education. This critical review addresses the themes and shifts in economies and educational policy, highlights links between neuroscience-based discourses, mindfulness, social-emotional learning and emotional well-being in education.

The Culture of Contentment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kenneth Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
The Many

This book examines what it calls the political economy of contentment. It argues that the fortunate and the favored do not contemplate and respond to their own longer-run well-being. Rather, they respond to immediate comfort and contentment. In the so-called capitalist countries, the controlling contentment and resulting belief is now that of the many, not just of the few. It operates under the guise of democracy, albeit a democracy not of all citizens but of those who, in defense of their social and economic advantage, actually go to the polls. This chapter discusses how economic life undergoes a constant process of change, and, in consequence, the same action or event occurring at different times can lead to very different results. It considers some examples throughout history, such as the economic ideas of the Physiocrats in France, the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume I, Entitlement and Well-Being.

1992 ◽  
Vol 102 (414) ◽  
pp. 1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athar Hussain ◽  
Jean Dreze ◽  
Amartya Sen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political

Organized Labor and Depression in Europe: Making Power Explicit in the Political Economy of Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-358
Author(s):  
Megan M. Reynolds ◽  
Veerle Buffel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Political Economy Of Health

Despite engagement with the construct of power relations, research on the political economy of health has largely overlooked organized labor as a determinant of well-being. Grounded in the theory of power resources, our study aims to fill this gap by investigating the link between country-level union density and mental health while accounting for the compositional effects of individual-level union membership. We use three waves of the European Social Survey (N = 52,737) and a variation on traditional random-effects models to estimate both the contextual and change effects of labor unions on depressive symptoms. We find that country-level union density is associated with fewer depressive symptoms and that this is true irrespective of union membership. We discuss our findings vis-à-vis the literatures on the political economy of health, power resources, and fundamental causes of disease.

The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (477) ◽  
pp. 526-551
Author(s):  
Chikodiri Nwangwu ◽  
Freedom C Onuoha ◽  
Bernard U Nwosu ◽  
Christian Ezeibe
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Petty Bourgeoisie ◽  
Post War ◽  
Material Conditions

Abstract The past two decades that coincide with the return of civil rule in most African countries have witnessed the reinforcement of ethnic nationalism and separatist agitations. While scholarly attention has focused on ethnicity to explain the revival of ethnic nationalism, how ethnic and class discourses conflate in the pursuit of ethnic nationalism remains understudied. Using a qualitative-dominant approach, this article interrogates how the Igbo petty bourgeoisie use ethnicity to mask the underlying differences in their material conditions in relation to the alienated masses. It also examines how these differences shape post-war Igbo nationalism. In the main, this article argues that the intersection of ethnic and class discourses is underpinned by unequal distribution of rights and powers accruing from productive resources. This unequal distribution of rights and powers results in differential material well-being and gives rise to conflicts between the dominant and subordinate classes. This explains the divergent approaches of the different factions of Igbo petty bourgeoisie to Igbo nationalism in Nigeria. The article concludes that understanding the political economy of the intersection of ethnic and class discourses is relevant for resolving the nationality question and the Biafra secessionist agitations in Nigeria and others across Africa.

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