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020			_a9781781688458 (hardcover : U.K. : alkaline paper)
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100	1		_aDavies, William, _d1976-
245	1	4	_aThe happiness industry : _bhow the government and big business sold us well-being / _cWilliam Davies.
264		1	_aLondon : _bVerso, _c2015.
300			_a314 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520	2		_a"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 new religion dedicated to well-being. In this brilliant dissection of our times, political economist William Davies shows how this philosophy, first pronounced by Jeremy Bentham in the 1780s, has dominated the political debates that have delivered neoliberalism. From a history of business strategies of how to get the best out of employees, to the increased level of surveillance measuring every aspect of our lives; from why experts prefer to measure the chemical in the brain than ask you how you are feeling, to why Freakonomics tells us less about the way people behave than expected, The Happiness Industry is an essential guide to the marketization of modern life. Davies shows that the science of happiness is less a science than an extension of hyper-capitalism"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520	2		_a"When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run 'for the greatest benefit of the greatest number,' he posed two problems: what is happiness and how can we measure it? With the rise of positive psychology, freakonimics, behavioural economics, endless TED talks, the happiness manifesto, the Happiness Index, the tyranny of customer service, the emergence of the quantified self movement, we have become a culture obsessed with measuring our supposed satisfaction. In anecdotes that include the Buddhist monk who lectured the business leaders of the world at Davos, why the Nike Fuel band makes us more worried about our fitness, how parts of our city are being rebuilt in response to scientific studies of oxytocin levels in our brain, and what a survey from Radisson hotels--that proves that 62% of us believe that well-being is a luxury worth more than work or a good relationship--really tells us about the way we measure ourselves, and continually find ourselves wanting"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
505	0		_aKnowing 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.
650		0	_aWell-being _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aWell-being _xSocial aspects _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aWell-being _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aWell-being _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aHappiness _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aNeoliberalism _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aCapitalism _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aMarketing _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aSocial psychology.
650		0	_aEconomics _xPsychological aspects.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. _2bisacsh
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