The happiness industry : how the government and big business sold us well-being /

"In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davies, William
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Well-being > Social aspects.
Well-being > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Well-being > Political aspects.
Well-being > Economic aspects.
Happiness > Social aspects.
Neoliberalism > Social aspects.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Marketing > Social aspects.
Social psychology.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
Table of Contents:
  • Knowing How You Feel
  • The Price of Pleasure
  • In the Mood to Buy
  • The Psychosomatic Worker
  • The Crisis of Authority
  • Social Optimization
  • Living in the Lab
  • Critical Animals.

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