PHILOSOPHY OF SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY: PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF RESEARCHES DURING 2006-2015

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) explore current research sufficiency economy philosophy during the 2006-2015 from ThaiLIS; 2) synthesize research. In this study, researcher used a qualitative approach by documentary research. Data were collected through data recording form and analyzed based on Miles and Huberman concept. The results revealed there are 162 sufficiency economy research works between 2006 and 2015., and those research reports focused on applying to the individual level, the existence of the community, liability management, spending habits of the individual, knowledge about the sufficiency economy and the presentation of the community sufficiency economy. Reasons of underlying the principles of the sufficiency economy philosophy were applied to the problem of consumption. Most of the knowledge about sufficiency economy is related to culture, sufficiency economy comparison with capitalist economy, building a sound understanding of the sufficiency economy, and development the body of knowledge about economic self-sufficiency, development and application of the learning process at the community level as well as networking community development sufficiency of civil society.