Titlebook: History and Politics of Well-Being in Europe; Wolfgang Glatzer Book 2019 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzer

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Economic Growth and Levels of Living,re burden from poverty, as defined by experts, and of subjectively felt scarcity, as ordinary people define their economic situation. Above economic growth was joined by ecological and climate threats. People in the European Union, especially the younger ones, have to worry about their future life chances.

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Long-Term Change and Future Perspectives,t, moreover, fragile and precarious. It is difficult to attain a high level of well-being for a society and then to support the different levels of well-being, to keep the high levels, to stabilize and enforce the middle levels and to support and increase well-being at the lower strata.

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Wars and the Destruction of Well-Being,n caused by wars, well-being in Europe was diminished by plagues and epidemics and not at least by the prosecution of “witchcrafts”. Also in modern time, continuing causes of death are going on, like traffic deaths and suicides.