Abstract:

One of the most important realities of our life is economy. This reality is such a thing that determines alone all over the life of the human being. The most crucial aims of economy is directing people to spent mony by triggering the instinct of individuals’ need. The culture of consumption not only embraces all the life of individuals but does it couses of the crises of the society. Although it depends on the time, surroundings and characters of individual, the understanding of simple life represents an idea that people shlould consume more than they need. It is well known that most of the problems in the world arouses from the bad usages of the natural sources of the world. The sources of the world is limited and is decreasing time by time. Becuase of this reality people need to use natural sorcers very carefully. In order to control the sources, responsible institutions, governments and people must advise and suggest to individuals to be carefull in using the money and the sources. They should teach the people to live in a simple life without spending sources too much. In this study, at the beginning, consumption which couses the economical and financial crises will be handled, secondly the characteristics of simple life will be discussed and lastly the relationships between simple life and economy will be examined. At the end, the way in which the solutions might take place will be shown and some suggestions will be directed to the people.

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