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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Davies, William, 1976- author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Davies, William, 1976- author.       by title:      The happiness indust...         MARC Display

The happiness industry : how the government and big business sold us well-being / William Davies. by Davies, William, 1976- author. London ; New York : Verso, 2015. 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. Electronic Resource 9781781688458.jpg ISBN:  9781781688458 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 1781688451 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  314 pages ; 22 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 304 Da Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 304 Da Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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