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The Happiness Industry How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being

Hardcover • 2015 • English

The Happiness Industry How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being

By William Davies

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“Deeply researched and pithily argued.” —New York Magazine “A brilliant, and sometimes eerie, dissection” of ‘the science of happiness’ and the modern-day commercialization of our most private emotions (Vice) Why are we so obsessed with measuring happiness?   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 treatabl...Show more

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9781781688458

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

The Happiness Industry How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being

Format

Hardcover

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