{"id":638654,"date":"2010-01-23T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1051949"},"modified":"2010-01-23T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:39:15","slug":"does-the-publics-psychology-affect-the-wealth-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/638654","title":{"rendered":"Does the public&#8217;s psychology affect the wealth of nations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What role does the public&#8217;s psychology play in the success of states?<\/p>\n<p>Does public self-belief contribute a measurable amount to GDP?<\/p>\n<p>Is success as much a matter of will, as it is of economic conditions?<\/p>\n<p>I would say that apathy and cynicism have a significant impact on success.  In an individual, self belief is often the difference between being able to perform a task, and not being able to.  A depressed person lacks any self-belief, and therefore do not believe they are capable of anything.  It may be the same with countries.<\/p>\n<p>While the budget allocated to a project is important, often the attempt at a project is governed by the public&#8217;s mood, or government&#8217;s mood beforehand &#8211; a self-confident public and government may propose something ambitious &#8211; while a pessemistic attitude could lead to a less costly stop gap measure, reasoning they fear consequences of failure.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What role does the public&#8217;s psychology play in the success of states? Does public self-belief contribute a measurable amount to GDP? Is success as much a matter of will, as it is of economic conditions? I would say that apathy and cynicism have a significant impact on success. In an individual, self belief is often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2G8S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}