The happiness industry : (Record no. 74900)

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ISBN 9781784782726
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Classification number 304
Item number DAV/H
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Personal name Davies, William,
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Title The happiness industry :
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Place of publication London:
Name of publisher Verso;
Year of publication 2015
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Number of Pages 314 pages ;
520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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"--
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Summary, etc "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"--
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Topical Term Well-being
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Topical Term Well-being
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Topical Term Well-being
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Topical Term Well-being
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Topical Term Happiness
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Topical Term Neoliberalism
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Topical Term Capitalism
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Topical Term Marketing
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Topical Term Social psychology.
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Topical Term Economics
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Topical Term SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Topical Term POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy.
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Topical Term BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
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Koha item type BK
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Home library Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Kannur University Central Library 28/06/2017 699.00 304 DAV/H 67109 BK

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