The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
Neoliberal success is equated with profit and human beings are understood “naturally” to be competitive, selfish, and unethical (hence the avalanche of evaluation and rules). But, following behavioral biologist Frans de Waal, Verhaeghe suggests that altruism as well as aggression ………..
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Neoliberalism is creating loneliness
What greater indictment of a system could there be than an epidemic of mental illness? Yet plagues of anxiety, stress, depression, social phobia, eating disorders, self-harm and loneliness now strike people down all over the world. The latest, catastrophic figures for children’s mental health ………….
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Change of households in China
Chinese families become smaller and smaller. The number of one-person-households grows instead rapidly. This is due to the low birth-rate and a changed attitude towards marriage.
The National Committee on Health and Family-planning states that the average of …………….
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