Does Money Bring Happiness? Comparing Brazil and the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4870910 |
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| Authors | Ruben George Oliven (0000-0003-3556-6955, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-804X • E-ISSN: 2573-1432 |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.62791/y1a91798 |
| OpenAlex | W2785002497 |
| Language | EN |
This article compares attitudes towards the relation between money and happiness in Brazil with those existing in the United States. Money is examined through language expressions, proverbs, popular music, and scholarly and non-scholarly articles. It is analyzed in relation to blood, sperm, slavery, free labor, saving, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Whereas in America money is outspoken, in Brazil there is frequently a diffident attitude towards it. While in Brazilian society, money is seen as polluting and leading to unhappiness, in North American society it is seen as something cleaner and as part of self-realization
Economics · Happiness · Political science · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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