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Pretorius, Marinda; Blaauw, Derick – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2020
Since 1994, there has been a doubling in the enrolment of students in South Africa's public universities. Students, especially first-generation students, face numerous challenges that may impact their subjective perceptions of their well-being. In a milieu of high levels of suicide and depression amongst South Africa's student population, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Well Being, College Environment
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Daly, Herman E. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
The search for a social goodness function in economic systems is reviewed, especially in light of the fact that the economy is a subsystem of a biosphere that has its own rules for determining success, or at least for limiting feasibility. The frequent perversity of reductionist quantitative success indicators in economics (profit, quotas, GDP) is…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Social Environment, Well Being