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• Title:
  The ageing of society in the context of dominant assumptions of contemporary economics and culture
• Creator:
  Michalski, Michał A.
• Contributor:
  Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Cultural Studies;
  mmichal@amu.edu.pl
• Description:
  Current demographic trends indicate that the process of ageing is more and more advanced in Western societies. While the available literature addressing this issue concentrates most often on developing effective tools for socio-economic policy, this paper aims at exploring the dominating assumptions of economics and culture to find how they may influence the demographic process that was mentioned. The purpose of the analysis undertaken here is to verify the thesis which claims that basic anthropological assumptions present in neoclassical economics and modern culture somehow ignore or underestimate such essential aspects of human life as old age and the helplessness or weakness connected with it. The conclusions of the paper indicate that there is a need for intergenerational balance within society, which, e.g., facilitates socio-economic development. Some of the most important factors influencing this may or may not be present within the economic theory and culture it is based on. It means that without the adequate vision of man and the phases of human life, the process of building a mentally healthy and vibrant society where everyone has his or her place is hardly possible.;
  Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the "Annales. Ethics in Economic Life" financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.04.03;
  2018
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Annales. Ethics in Economic Life; 5;
  21
• Subject:
  ageing;
  pensioners;
  sociodemographic shifts;
  cultural context;
  economic thought;
  J11;
  J14
• Identifier:
  1899-2226;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/27301 ;
  2353-4869;
  10.18778/1899-2226.21.5.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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