Values in a Border Region March 5, 2009
Posted by David in Economics, Personal stuff, Politics, The Social Sciences.Tags: Ake E Andersson, Border Regions, Ingvar Holmberg, Oresund
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Right now, I’m working on the outline of a book that will discuss the results of a survey of high school seniors in the Copenhagen and Malmo regions (see my entry entitled “New Values Survey”). A possible book title is “Values in a Border Region: The Oresund Experience.” I will be writing this book together with Åke Andersson (Jönköping International Business School) and Ingvar Holmberg (University of Gothenburg). The idea is to analyze and discuss the results from a variety of theoretical approaches in economics, sociology, and political science.
Preliminary chapter headings:
1 Border regions of the world
2 Values, preferences, and individual behavior
3 Value demography and the cohort replacement hypothesis
4 Scandinavia: the avant-garde of global values?
5 Value change and the political lag
6 The emancipation of women: gender differences and gender convergence
7 Religious faith, agnosticism, and atheism: the decline of organized religion in Scandinavia
8 Diagnosing extremist values
9 Education and work: the changing money-happiness trade-off
10 Should I go or should I stay? the urban-rural trade-off
11 Homo Ludens and the importance of being entertained
12 The new body worshippers: health, beauty, and fitness
13 Oresund values: long-run convergence or stable contrasts?
Chapters 1 through 5 will be mainly theoretical, while most of the new empirical results are slotted for chapters 6 through 12. Even so, all chapters will contain mixtures of theories, hypotheses, and empirical results from this and earlier studies; Values in a Border Region has the potential of becoming an unusually exciting and rewarding research project!
