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Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Max Koch

FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor

Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Economic Development and Prosperity Patterns Around the World: Structural Challenges for a Global Steady-State Economy

Författare

  • Martin Fritz
  • Max Koch

Summary, in English

Taking a global perspective this paper sets out to theoretically and empirically identify prosperity patterns for four groups of countries at different levels of economic development. It conceptualizes

‘prosperity’ in terms of ecological sustainability, social inclusion, and the quality of life and contextualizes this definition in global perspective. Subsequently, it operationalizes and measures these dimensions on the basis of data from sources such as the World Bank, the Global Footprint Network and the OECD for 138 countries and by applying dual multiple factor analysis. Building on earlier research that suggested that higher development levels in terms of GDP per capita are capable of providing social and individual prosperity but at the expense of environmental sustainability, we ask whether other interrelations between prosperity indicators exist on other levels of economic development. Empirically distinguishing between ‘rich’, ‘emerging’, ‘developing’ and ‘poor countries’ the paper

finds that social and individual prosperity indicators largely increase with economic development while ecological sustainability

indicators worsen. Our analyses further reveal that ‘social cohesion’ can be established under different economic and institutional conditions, that subjective wellbeing increases with income rises at all levels of economic development and that a decoupling of carbon emissions from the provision of prosperity is,in principle, achievable, while a reduction of the global matter and energy throughput poses a much greater challenge. The paper concludes by highlighting the repercussions of these findings for the

trajectories that countries at different levels of economic development would need to undertake.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

41-48

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Environmental Change

Volym

38

Issue

May

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Prosperity
  • Global steady-state economy
  • Ecological sustainability
  • Economic development
  • Degrowth
  • Cross-country analysis

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0959-3780