The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier
Since the first industrial revolution, the world economy has passed a turmoiled path with many salient transformations that have shaped today’s human relations, commercial trades, innovation and governance. Now, humanity is going through the digital revolution, which seems to change the world eve...
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| description | Since the first industrial revolution, the world economy has passed a turmoiled path with many
salient transformations that have shaped today’s human relations, commercial trades, innovation
and governance. Now, humanity is going through the digital revolution, which seems to change the
world even more rapidly than its predecessors. Despite the myriad of digitalisation advantages
connected with this, one cannot neglect the downsides. Terms such as technostress, cyberbullying or
technology addiction emerged to express the harm the accelerated digitalisation has brought into
our lives. The present paper focuses on digitalisation’s effects on happiness, using a VAR model for
the EU countries from 2017-2022. Despite the positive effect on economic growth underlined in the
literature, a positive impulse in terms of digitalisation generates a persistent negative effect on
happiness in the next three years. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f99ba1113ed4c84b96efd02f21b3c542024-02-12T09:28:28ZengOvidius University PressOvidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series2393-31272024-02-01XXIII2326334The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier Aurora Murgea 0West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, RomaniaSince the first industrial revolution, the world economy has passed a turmoiled path with many salient transformations that have shaped today’s human relations, commercial trades, innovation and governance. Now, humanity is going through the digital revolution, which seems to change the world even more rapidly than its predecessors. Despite the myriad of digitalisation advantages connected with this, one cannot neglect the downsides. Terms such as technostress, cyberbullying or technology addiction emerged to express the harm the accelerated digitalisation has brought into our lives. The present paper focuses on digitalisation’s effects on happiness, using a VAR model for the EU countries from 2017-2022. Despite the positive effect on economic growth underlined in the literature, a positive impulse in terms of digitalisation generates a persistent negative effect on happiness in the next three years. https://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19-1.pdfdigitalisationeconomic growthhappinesshuman relationshealthy and meaningful life |
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| title | The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier |
| title_full | The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier |
| title_fullStr | The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier |
| title_short | The Dark Side of Digitalisation: Wealthier but Unhappier |
| title_sort | dark side of digitalisation wealthier but unhappier |
| topic | digitalisation economic growth happiness human relations healthy and meaningful life |
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