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The happiness industry : how the government and big business sold us well-being / William Davies.
By: Davies, William [author.]
.Publisher: London : Verso, 2015Description: 314 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781688458.Subject(s): Well-being -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Well-being -- Political aspects | Well-being -- Economic aspects | Happiness -- Social aspects | Neoliberalism -- Social aspects | Capitalism -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 330.019 Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher.
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| 330.01 TIR Economics for the common good / | 330.01 ZAN Economic philosophy : | 330.0112 GRE The map and the territory : | 330.019 DAV The happiness industry : | 330.019 GRA The pursuit of happiness : | 330.019 KAY Radical uncertainty / | 330.019 THA Misbehaving : |
"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"--Provided by publisher.