To this book
Stinginess and luck, greed and luxury, power and status, vanity and narcissism, poverty and lack are facets of the gold and money rush that has been going on for centuries. Focused exclusively on increasing money, a few people accumulate more and more money into ever higher money towers. Private assets (cash assets, luxury goods) are beyond our imagination. But: Does money also make you happy? Do they just serve as a substitute for other passions? How do being rich and having money affect human well-being?
The contributions in this anthology provide differentiated answers to these questions. Sociologists, psychologists, economists, bankers and educational scientists, happiness researchers and entrepreneurs express themselves from very different perspectives on the “value of money” as a “measure of value”, on “money as a bringer of happiness” and on the “responsibility” that comes with owning money connected is.
The Publisher
Dieter Korczak studied sociology, social psychology, finance and economics in Cologne and received his doctorate from the Cologne sociologist René König. For over ten years he has been the first chairman of the Interdisciplinary Study Society and is responsible for the edition of the Interdisciplinary Series. He lives and works in Munich and heads a social science research institute there
Most recently he published the following at Asanger-Verlag:
- 2008 The power of dreams
- 2007 Future potential of nanotechnologies (with Anton Lerf)
- 2006 Money and other passions
- 2005 How much manipulation can people tolerate?
from the content
- Eske Bockelmann: In the rhythm of money
- Christoph Deutschmann: Money as a substitute religion
- Ludwig Poullain: Success, power, status
- Frank Müller: I consume, therefore I am – The (luxury) purchase as an experience
- Michael Wilken and Sigga Speit: Prosperity and happiness
- Monika Kritzmöller: Everything is vanity – modernization, narcissism
- Helwart Today: Money, education and democracy – How much can education cost?
- Michael Burkhard Piorkowsky: Prevention of indebtedness – If you remain stupid, you pay for it
- Dieter Korczak: Over-indebtedness in the context of modernization
- Andrea Tichy and Gerd Leidig: You are as rich as you feel – discover the relaxed way to deal with money
Availability notice
At the SFB as a publisher-fresh archive collection at the offer price.
2024-01-01 03:24:04
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