Human Happiness and the Pursuit of Maximization Is More Always Better?
This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies. These societies, defined as affluent capitalist societies, emphasize competition and success both institutionally and culturally. Growing affluence improves life in many ways, for a lar...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
| Series: | Happiness Studies Book Series
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Is More Always Better? An Introduction; Hilke Brockmann and Jan Delhey
- Chapter 2. When the Pursuit of More Backfires - The American Experiment; Peter Whybrow
- Chapter 3. More Nonsense and Less Happiness: The Unintended Effects of Artificial Competitions; Mathias Binswanger
- Chapter 4. Happiness by Maximization?; Kurt Bayertz
- Chapter 5. Maximization and the Good; Valerie Tiberius
- Chapter 6. How Wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, Optimization and Short-Sighted Resource Use in Biological Evolution; Hanna Kokko
- Chapter 7. Towards a Neuroscience of Well-being – Implications of Insights from Pleasure Research; Kent C. Berridge and Morten L. Kringelbach
- Chapter 8. From Treating Mental Dysfunction to Neuroenhancement; Michael Koch
- Chapter 9. Do Aspirations and Adaptation Impede the Maximization of Happiness?; Ulrich Schimmack and Hyunji Kim
- Chapter 10. My Car is Bigger than Yours. Consumption, Status Competition, and Happiness in Times of Affluence; Hilke Brockmann and Song Yan
- Chapter 11. Some Lessons from Happiness Economics for Environmental Sustainability; Heinz Welsch
- Chapter 12. Public Policy and Human Happiness: The Welfare State and the Market as Agents of Well-Being; Robert Davidson, Alexander C. Pacek, and Benjamin Radcliff
- Chapter 13 Should the State Care for the Happiness of Its Citizens?; Aloys Prinz
- Chapter 14. A “Happiness Test” for the New Measures of National Well-Being: How Much Better than GDP are they?; Jan Delhey and Christian Kroll